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Around the same time, the macadanrization of the streets-which makes it possible,
despite the heavy traffic, to caITY on a conversation in front of a cafe without shouting in
the other person's ear.
For the architectural unage of Paris the war of 1870 was perhaps a blessing, seeing that
Napoleon III had intended to alter whole sections of the city. Stahr thus writes, in 1857,
that one had to make haste now to see the old Paris, "for the new nIler, it seems, has a
mind to leave but little of it standing:'
Ornament and boredom.
Opposition of perspective and concrete, tactile nearness.
In the theory of collecting, the isolation, the segregation of every single object is very
important. A totality-whose integral character always stands as far removed as possible
from utility and, in preeminent cases, resides in a strictly defined, phenomenologically
quite remarkable type of "completeness" (which is diametrically opposed to utility). K ° ,8>
Historical and dialectical relation between diorama and photography.
Important in regard to collecting: the fact that the object is detached from all original
ftmctions of its utility makes it the more decided in its meaning. It functions now as a true
encyclopedia of all knowledge of the epoch, the landscape, the industry, and the owner
from which it comes.
There was pleorama (travels on water; pleo, "I go by ship"), navalorama, cosmorama,
diaphanorama, picturesque views, pictorial voyages in a room, pictorial room-voyage,
diaphanorama.
Among the images : the sea of ice on the Grindelwald glacier in Switzerland, view
of the harbor of Genoa from rooms of the Palazzo Doria, interior view of the
cathedral ofBrou in France, gallery of the Colosseum in Rome, Gothic cathedral
in morning light.
The play on words with "-rama" (see Balzac, Pere Goriol) in Germany as well. "Is
?> it ?> still in use?"
We ather and boredom. The mere soporific, narcotizing effect which cosmic forces have
on the ordinary man is attested in the relation of such a man to one of the highest
manifestations of these forces: the weather. Comparison with the way Goethe (in his
studies on meteorology)36 managed to illuminate the weather.-On the weather which a
fOlUltain creates in its particular location. (Vestibule of Daguerre's diorama in Berlin.)
We ather in the casinos.
A ballet whose principal scene tal,es place in the casino at Monte Carlo. Noise of
rolling balls, of croupiers' rakes, of chips determining the character of the music.