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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