Atdtda[20] 548.16: Melancholy - or what else?

[Cometman]

--- Michel <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> So the CoC attended a Boulanger remembrance, but they are not sad. 

Boulanger - yet another historical personage of whom I never before
heard.  A military bureaucrat who developed a large following and 
posed a threat to the government? 

> 
> 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.
> 

a few years ago, it seemed like Belgium was really popular as a 
joke topic here in the US.  Other than Brussels sprouts, which are
famous as something kids won't eat, Belgium is a blank place on
many people's mental world map.


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