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of Schiller's we read of "the hesitant VYing of the butterBy:'50 This points to that associa­
tion of wingedness with the feeling of indecision which is so characteristic of hashish
intoxication.
Hofmannsthal's plan for The Novice and for The Fortuneteller.51
Polemic against iron rails, in the 18305. A. Gordon, A Treatise in Elementaryl Locomotion)
wanted to have the "steam carriage" run on lanes of granite.
Great collectors. Pachinger, Wo lfskehPs friend, who has put together a collection that, in
its anay of proscribed and damaged objects, rivals the Figdor collection in Vienna. On the
Stachus, he suddenly stoops to pick up something he has been seeking for weeks: a
misprinted streetcar ticket that was in circulation for only one hour. Gratz in Wuhlgarten.
The family in which everyone conects something, for example matchboxes. Pachinger
hardly knows any more how things stand in the world; explains to his visitors-alongside
the most antique implements-the use of pocket handkerdliefs, distorting mirrors, and
the like. "Beautiful foundation for a collection;' Hoerschehnann. A German in Paris who
collects bad (only bad!) art.
Waxworks: mixture of the ephemeral and the fashionable. Woman fastening her garter.
Nadja , p. 52
Aporias of town planning (beauty of old districts), of museums, of street l1aIIles, of
interiors.
One can characterize the problem of the foml of the new art straight on: When and how
will the worlds of form which, without our having expected it, have arisen, for example,
in mechanics, or in machine constmction, and subjugated us-when -will they make
whatever nature they contain into primal llistory? vVhen will we reach a state of society in
those arising from them, themselves to us as natural
forms?
On Veuil1ot's "Paris is musty and close." Fashions and the complete antithesis to the
open-air world of today. The "glaucous gleam" under the petticoats, of which Aragon
speaks. The corset as the torso's arcade. VVhat today is de rigueur among the lowest class
of prostitutes-not to undress-may once have been the height of refinement. Hallmark Q[
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