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454. "Die Modeme hat die Antike wie einen Alb, der im Schlaf libel' sie gekommen ist."
Alb can also mean "incubus."
455. Baudelaire, "To a Woman Passing By," The Flowers qf Evil (trans . McGowan),
p. 189.
456. Baudelaire, "The Voyage;' The Complete Verse, p. 247. Tile Lifo and Wiitings qf Turgot,
ed. W Wa lker Stephens (London: Longmans, Green 1895), p. 310.
457. Hermann Lotze, Microcos1llusJ trans. Elizabeth Hamilton and E. E. Constance Jones
(New York: Scribner and Welford, 1888), vol. 2, p. 387. The excerpt quoted in
J83a,2 is found on p. 388.
458. See the story of Jacob and Esau in Genesis 25, verses 29-34.
459. Benjamin, "Surrealism," trans. EdmundJephcott, in SJ1i; vol. 2, p. 213.
460. Baudelaire, ':My Heart Laid Bare," p. l07 ("111e Poem of Hashish").
461. See Brecht, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 8. pp. 408-410 ("Die Sch6nheit in den Gedi­
chten des Baudelaire") for the derivation ofJ84a,2, 3, and 4. [R.T]
462. Baudelaire, Oeuvres completes, vol. 2, p. 709. [R.T] In English in "The Painter of
Modern Life," p. 26.
463. Baudelaire, Tile Flowers qf Evil, p. 201 (trans. Robert Lowell).
464. Baudelaire, ':My Heart Laid Bare,"p. 160.
465. Ibid., pp. 200-201.
466. Ibid., pp. 190, 199 ('IMy Heart Laid Bare"). IIQu'est-ce que l'amour? Le besoin de
sortir de soi ... et l'artiste ne sort jamais de lui-meme."
467. Baudelaire, Intimate Journals) p. 85.
468. Ibid., p. 67.
469. Johan Huizinga, Tile Waning qf the Middle Ages, trans. F. Hopman (New York:
Anchor, 1954), pp. 145-146.
470. Ibid., p. 210.
471. Title of a book published in Paris in 1844 lampooning various actresses, such as
Rachel, and playwrights, such as Fran