decadent_and_depraved reviewed Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
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5 stars
Oh, you Baudelaire, you open your book with such pretty words in The Strager. Forget it, yet please love the clouds, over there, the marvelous clouds. But then, you Baudelaire, you connoisseur of the decadent and profane, you torment your fellow man in The Bad Glazier. You teach him a lesson. You teach him to be distrustful and bitter, yet your mad shouting for the beauty of life got me drunk on folly as you very much were. And you crown all that with neither the love of beauty nor the need for inhumanity. You show me the pain of the real. You show me that my illusion of the everyday is precisely what I need. You read The Rope to lose all the sense of hope.
