In the text that follows, any number of factors may be found that could be used for a phenomenology of extension, expansion and ecstasy. But after having been lengthily prepared by Baudelaire, we have now come upon the formula that must be put in the center of our phenomenological observations: “immensity with no other setting than itself.” Concerning this immensity, Baudelaire has just told us in detail, that it is a conquest of intimacy.
