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"Then she experienced, like an electric shock, an awakening of that courage women sometimes have and which makes them in trying hours the most courageous of beings."
fitting for today's trip to the movies with the fam! We saw Wonder Woman. More courage there than Maupassant gives credit for

de Maupassant seems, if not a great reader of Baudelaire (see the poem "To a Passerby"), a keen amplifier of the French modernist and symbolist traditions. The opening paragraph pays homage to Mallarmé's "L'Azur"!

But I would breathe always the same air that you breathe, share everything with you, make use of only those things that belong to us both, feel that all which constitutes my life is yours as much as mine--the glass from which I drink, the seat on which I rest, the bread I eat, and the fire that warms me."

"You, yes, I have you, my friend, but you don't belong to me ... You're mine--that is, I steal a little of you now and then."

Witness a country unfurling before you: oppression and love, together, have many textures and colors.

In short, if you don't take mescaline, pay more attention to the unnoticed. There's a universe of difference in what may seem homogenous or boring ...