Baudelaire's The Mask--The Tristero--A Languid and Sinister Blooming

[rich]

that swooning visage--more affecting than any pornography. stephen
dedalus would approve

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks.   That is a really nifty poem.  Not to mention that it limns a
> portrait not dissimilar to Oedipa considered statically...
>
> here's a photo of the statue (presumably) referred to, at least it's
> by Ernest Christophe, the person to whom Mr B dedicated the poem:
> http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/c/p-echrist1.htm
>
> she is a beaut.  I think Baudelaire missed the point: the beautiful is
> the real, tragedy a mask
>
>
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:44 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> sorry the link is here:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/qau27t
>>
>> subtitled An Allegorical Statue in the Style of the Renaissance
>>
>> scroll up one page on books google pg for the beginning of the poem
>>
>> rich
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> --
> "For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as.
> For the moment anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are." - GR, p
> 136
>