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‘Never forget, when you hear people boast of our progress of enlightenment, that the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!’
Glancing through Claude Pichois’s biography Charles Baudelaire, reading on Charles Baudelaire’s lifelong preoccupation with money and his incessant struggle to keep his many creditors at bay, I came across this enthralling Poe-esk and paradoxical prose poem, one of the 50 petits poèmes en prose collected in Baudelaire’s posthumously publishe ...more
Glancing through Claude Pichois’s biography Charles Baudelaire, reading on Charles Baudelaire’s lifelong preoccupation with money and his incessant struggle to keep his many creditors at bay, I came across this enthralling Poe-esk and paradoxical prose poem, one of the 50 petits poèmes en prose collected in Baudelaire’s posthumously publishe ...more
Great and interesting short story about a man who bet something a bit too near and dear.
The greatest trick is the convincing of there being no trick. There also may be an otherworldy flavor in the story as well.
I believe the story is in the public domain as well.
The greatest trick is the convincing of there being no trick. There also may be an otherworldy flavor in the story as well.
I believe the story is in the public domain as well.
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du Mal; (1857; The Flowers of Evil) which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his Petits poèmes en prose (1868; "Little Prose Poems") was the most successful and innovative e
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“A soul is a thing so impalpable, so often useless and sometimes such a nuisance, that the loss of it disturbed me less than if I had lost my visiting card while taking a walk.”
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