Previous message: [lbo-talk] Happy Birthday, Charles Baudelaire! Happy Birthday Baudelaire *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. * ** *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.* ** *Baudelaire on Hashish* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CB: Happy Birthday, Charles B