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5 comments to "Literary Eccentricities."
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aliocha
January 11th, 2007 at
12:04 pm
according to my edition of “les paradis artificiels”, baudelaire was not addicted to opium, he only took laudanum a couple of times as a cure… besides, he was very conservative about drugs as an entertainment or an ‘enlightenment’ (and this what the “artificial paradises” essay is about…)
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pld
January 11th, 2007 at
5:24 pm
The paragraph about H.C. Andersen reminds me when I was about 12 or so … I had a bunk bed and slept on the top; one time I just jumped out of bed in my sleep and incredibly landed on feet. Sadly, not on my toes, but on heels, and it hurt so bad that I almost had to go to a hospital. Quite a rude awakening, literally.
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Moon
January 11th, 2007 at
8:52 pm
Charles Dickens [wiki] could not sleep unless his bed was aligned in a north-south position. Also, he habitually touched certain objects three times “for luck.”
Certain “objects”, eh? Is that a euphemism or what?
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Moon
January 11th, 2007 at
8:55 pm
James Joyce went blind from that!
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Baudelairean
August 13th, 2008 at
3:58 pm
Baudelaire never owned a pet bat. Where did you get that idea?
His opiate addiction has been analyzed in a recent book called Baudelaire in Chains.
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