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ing; Friederike Kempner (1836-1904), German poet and socialite. A comparison
with the two other "catalogues of muses" (see F°,4 and FO,IO in "First Sketches")
reveals that Dulcinea is a variant of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, and that Benjamin thought
of adding the pamter Angelika Kauffrmum (1741-1807), a friend of Goethe's. An·
other list, presumably the earliest, is found in "The Arcades of Paris" (hO,I). [J.L.]
Countess Geschwitz, a lesbian artist, is a character in Frank Wedekind's Erdgeist and
Die Buchse der Pandora, plays which inspired Alban Berg's unfinished opera Lulu. The
identity of Tipse remains a mystery. When Benjamin writes that the mother of Sune­
alism was eine Passage, he plays on the feminine gender of the noun in German.
4. The passage is cited in Benjamin's German translation. For the original French, see
GS, vol. 5, p. 1326.
5. The reference is to Goethe's Faust, Part 2, Act 1 (lines 6264ff.), in which Faust visits
"the Mothers"-vaguely defined mythological figures-in search of the secret that
will enable him to discover Helen afTroy.
6. See Hla,3.
7. Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant, trans. Simon Watson Taylor (1971; rpt. Boston: Exact
Change, 1994), p. 14.
8. "Know thyself."
9. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, trans. Charles E. Wilbour (1862; rpt. New York: Mod·
em Library, 1992), p. 103.
10. Paris veeu (paris, 1930). See C9a,1.
11. Hugo, Les Miserables, p. 73Z
12. Ibid., pp. 859-860.
13. Charles Baudelaire, Selected Letters, trans. Rosemary Lloyd (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1986), pp. 141-142.
14. Baudelaire, Les Flean da mal, trans. Richard Howard (Boston: Godine, 1882), p. 90
("The Swan" ).
15. Marcel Raymond, From Baudelaire to SU1Tealism) trans. G. M. (1950; rpt. London:
Methuen, 1970), p. 170.
16. Jules Romams, Men of Good Will, vol. 1, trans. Wane B. Wells (New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1946), p. 146.
17. Oswald Spenglel; The Decline if the West) vol. 2, trans. Charles Francis Atkinson
(New Yo rk: Knopf, 1928), p. 10Z
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1. Jakob van Hoddis (Hans Davidsohn), Weltende (1911), in Gesammelte Dichtungen
(Zurich, 1958), p. 466 ("Klage"). [R.T.]
2. Joharm Peter Hebel, Weeke (Frankfurt am Main, 1968), vol. 1, p. 393. [R.T.]
3. In the collection L'Autogra.plte (Paris, 1863). [J.L.]
4. Aere perennius: "more lasting than brass." Taed£utll vitae: tedium of life.
5. The Rue des ColOIllles-formerly the Passage des Colonnes, transformed into a
street in 1798-is located near the Stock Exchange. [J.L.]
6. Cited in French without references. Reading "bien des aventures" (FO,18 in "First
Sketches" ) for "lieu des aventures."
7. Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant, trans. Simon Watson Taylor (1971; rpt. Boston: Exact
Change, 1994), p. 71.
8. See note for BO,4 ('First Sketches").
9. See Ferdinand Hardekopf, Gesammeite Dichtungen (Zurich, 1963), pp. 50fI. [R.T.] See
also BO,S ("First Sketches").
10. "TUnc" and weather."