[lbo-talk] Happy Birthday Baudelaire

[JAMES Heartfield]

*Exterior objects slowly, successively take on strange appearances … sounds
clothe themselves in colours, colours acquire musical notes … colours take
on unaccustomed energy and enter the brain with a victorious intensity …
young girls with sparkling flesh look at you with eyes that are deeper and
more limpid than the sky and the water … receding waters, playful fountains,
harmonious cascades, the blue immensity of the sea, all flow, sing and sleep
with an inexpressible charm. *
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*Those beings who arrive by the pure and free exercise of their will or a
state where they are at once cause and effect, subject and object,
hypnotizer and sleep-walker … By a singular equivocation, a kind of
transposition or quid pro quo, you feel yourself evaporating, and you
attribute to your pipe … the strange ability to smoke you.*
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*Baudelaire on Hashish*