Atdtda[20] 548.16: Melancholy - or what else?
Michel
mryc2903 at yahoo.fr
Wed Oct 17 13:38:08 CDT 2007
So the CoC attended a Boulanger remembrance, but they are not sad. 'The
Brussels visit proved so melancholy [...].' [548.16]
There is a huge difference between sadness and melancholy. Are the Coc
melancholised by visiting Brussels, or by attending the Boulanger
remembrance?
About half a century before this happening in the novel, Charles
Baudelaire [this is Patti Smith's Baudelaire, God bless her],wrote the
very melancholical pamphlette 'Pauvre Belgique', a few years after good
old Charlie Marx, exile, wrote the Communist Manifesto in a room on the
Brussels Great Market.
Solving the CoC melancholy seems to be going to Ostend, the most
melancholic town I have ever seen.
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