The Arcades Project - Operi

envelop his sun, images arise like tables of the gods, islands in the Mediterranean.
The need for sensation as king-size vice. To fasten on two of the seven deadly sins. "Which
ones? The prophecy that men would be blinded by the effects of too much electric light,
and maddened by the rapidity of news reporting.
As introduction to the section on weather: Proust, the story of the little weather
mannikin:12 My joy whenever tile moming sky is overcast.
Demoiselles: incendiaries disguised as women around 1830.
Around 1830 there was a newspaper in Paris with the name Le Sylphe. Find a ballet about
newspapers.
fasces, Phrygian caps, tripods.
the "playing-card kings of stone" in Hackliinder.
von Etzel-railroad constructions. .
Various of the Berlin arcades should be mentioned: the colonnade in the vicinity
of the Spittelmarkt (Leipziger Strasse), the colonnade in a quiet street of the
clothiers' district, the arcade, the colonnade at tbe Halle Gate, the railing at the
entry to private ways. Also to be kept in mind is the blue postcard of the Halle
Gate, whicb showed all the windows lit up beneath tbe moon, illuminated by
exactly the same light as came from the moon itself. Think further of the untouchable
Sunday afternoon landscape that opens out somewhere at the end of a
forlorn secluded street of "faded gentility"; in its neatness, the houses of this
dubious neighborhood seem suddenly changed to palaces.
Magic of cast iron: "Hahblle was able then to convince himself that the ring around this
planet was nothing other than a cll-cular balcony on which the inhabitants of Saturn
strolled in the eveIllug to get a breath of fresh air." Grandville, Un autre monde , p. 139. (perhaps belongs also under the rubric "Hashish;')
Comparison of Hegel's Phiinomenologie and the works of Grandville. Derivation of Grandville's
work in terms of the philosophy of history. Important is the hypertrophy of the
caption in this work. Also, the consideration of Lautd:amont may be linked to Grandville.
Grandville's works aTe a veritable cosmogony of fashion. Equally important, perhaps, a
comparison between Hogarth and Grandville. A part of Grandville's work might be
entitled 'Fashion's Revenge on the Flowers:' Grandville's works are the sibylline books of
jJUbliciti. Everything that, with him, has its preliminary form as joke, or satire, attains its
true unfolding as advertisement.