The Arcades Project - Operi

VVhat was otherwise reserved for only a very few words-a privileged caste of words, the
names-the city has made possible for all words, or at least a great many: to be elevated
to the noble status of name. And this supreme revolution in language was carried out by
what is most general: the street. And a vast order appears in the fact that all names in the
cities nm into one another without exercising any influence on one another. Even
those much-overused names of great men, already half-congealed into concepts, here once
more pass through a filter and regain the absolute; through its street names, the city is
image of a linguistic cosmos.
Only the meeting of two different street names makes for the magic of the
"corner."
Names of streets written vertically (when? book? at any rate German) . On
the invasion of the letters.
The structure of books like La Grande Ville, Le Diable Ii Paris, Les Franfais peints par
eux-memes is a literary phenomenon that corresponds to the stereoscopes, panoramas, and
so ford1.
TIle true has no windows. Nowhere does the hue look out to the universe. And the
interest of the panorama is in seeing the true city. "The city in the bottle"-the city
indoors. "What is found within the windowless house is the true. One such windowless
house is the theater; hence the eternal pleasure it affords. Hence, also, the pleasure taken
in those windowless rotundas, the panoramas. In the theater, after the beginning of the
perfonnance, the doors remain closed. Those passing through 8Tcades are, in a certain
sense, inhabitants of a panorama. The windows of this house open out on them. They can
be seen out these windows but cannot themselves look in.
Paintings of foliage in the Bibliotheque Nationale. 'Ibis work was done in . ..
With the dramatic signboards of the magasills de nouveautes, "art enters the service of the
businessman."
Persian fashion makes its appearance in the mania for magasins.
Fate of street names in the vaults of the Metro.
On the peculiarly voluptuous pleasure in nanling streets. Jean Brunet,
Le MeJsianisme, organisation generale Paris: Sa constitution generale) part 1 (paris,
1858). "Rue du Senegal;' "Place d'Afrique:' In this cOlmection,
something on the Place du Maroc. Monnments are sketched out in
this book, too.
Red lights marking the entrance to the underworld of nan1es. Link between
name and labyrinth in the Metro.
Cashier as Danae.