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V THE DOUBLE ROOM A ROOM which resembles a reverie; a truly spiritual room, where the hushed atmosphere is faintly tinged with rose and blue. The soul takes therein a bath of laziness, rendered aromatic by regret and by desire. It is something like twilight; somewhat blue, somewhat rosy. A dream of pleasure at the hour of the eclipse! The articles of furniture have long, low, lan- guid shapes; one would say that they dream; they seem endowed, as vegetables and miner- als are, with a somnambulistic life. The cover- ings speak with the same silen…
1928 · PDF PAGE 61
…es; pictures blesséd, calm and deep as the souls of the art- ists which created them. The setting suns which so richly colour the dining-room or the drawing-room are sifted by fair stuffs or by high windows of stained glass; the furniture is vast, curious, bizarre, weaponed with locks and with secrets, like refined souls. Mirrors, metals, stuffs, jewelry, porcelain, play a silent and
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CONTENTS I. THE STRANGER II. THE DESPAIR OF THE OLD WOMAN III. THE ARTISTS CONFESSION IV. A JESTER V. THE DOUBLE ROOM VI. EVERYONE HAS HIS CHIMERA VII. THE MADMAN AND THE VENUS VIII. THE DOG AND THE FLACK IX. THE BAD GLAZIER X. ONE OCLOCK IN THE MORNING XI. THE WILD WOMAN AND THE SPOILT DARLING XII. CROWDS XIII. WIDOWS XIV. THE OLD MOUNTEBANK XV. THE CAKE XVI. THE CLOCK XVII. A WORLD IN A MANE XVIII. WILL YOU COME WITH ME XIX. THE POOR MANS TOY XX. THE FAIRY GIFTS XXI. THE TEMPTATIONS: OR, LOVE RICHES AND GLORY XXII. THE TWILIGHT OF EVEN XXI…
1928 · PDF PAGE 154
XLIV THE SOUP AND THE CLOUDS MY small beloved mad girl had invited me to dinner, and through the open window of the dining-room I contemplated the moving archi- tecture that God has made of vapour, the mar- vellous buildings of the impalpable, and I said to myself in my contemplation, All these phantasmagoria are almost as beautiful as the eyes of my beautiful, wild girl with the green eyes. And then, suddenly, I received a violent blow in the back, and I heard a raucous, charming voice, an hysterical voice, a voice made hoarse by brandy, the…
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XLII PORTRAITS OF MISTRESSES IN a mans boudoir, that is to say, in the smoking-room of a fashionable gambling hell, four men were smoking and drinking. They were not precisely old or young, they bore that unmistakable distinction which belongs to the veterans of Marshal Joy, that indescribableI know not what to call itthat cold and banter- ing sadness which clearly says, We have lived strongly, and we seek something to admire and to respect. One of them turned the conversation to the subject of women. It would have been more philosophical …
1928 · PDF PAGE 135
…d on thy throat that thou hast therefore kept for ever the desire to weep. And yet in the overflowing of her joy the moon filled all the room like a phosphorescent atmosphere, like a luminous poison, and all this living light was thinking and saying: Thou shalt know eternally the influence of my kiss; thou shalt be beautifully in my fashion. Thou shalt love that which I love and which loves
1928 · PDF PAGE 127
…ntoxicate yourself. And if sometimes upon the steps of a pal- ace, or upon the green grass of a moat, or in the sad solitude of your own room, you awake, intoxication already diminished or disappeared, ask of the wind, of the wave, of the star, of the bird, of the clock, of all that flies, of all that groans, of all that rolls, of all that sings, of all that speaks,ask what time is it? And the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, will answer you, It is time to intoxicate your- self. In order to escape from the slavish mar- tyrdom o…
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XLIX DEATH TO THE POOR! FOR a fortnight I had shut myself up in my room, and had surrounded myself with the books that were fashionable at that timeI speak of sixteen or seventeen years ago; I mean the books in which is discussed the art of making everyone happy, wise, and rich, in twenty-four hours. I had then digested swallowed, I suppose I should sayall the lu- cubrations of all these happiness-furnishers, both those who advise the poor to make them- selves slaves, and those who persuade them that they are all dethroned monarchs. You will…
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Hullo, hullo, I called to him to come up. At the same time I reflected, not without some amusement, that my room being on the sixth story, and the staircase extremely narrow, that the man was bound to find it rather difficult to make the ascent, and to catch in many a place the corners of his merchandise. At last he appeared. Having examined all his glasses with curiosity, I said to him: What, you have no coloured glasses?Rose glasses, red glasses, blue glasses, magic glasses, glasses of Paradise! You impudent fellow; you dare to walk about…
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…of her life to the sorrows of mine, or the guttersnipe errand-boy of an editor who wants the continuation of my manuscript. The heavenly room, the Idol, the Queen of Dreams, the Slyphide, as the great René calls her, all this magic has disappeared at the spec- tres brutal knock. Horror! I remember, I remember! This hovel, this dwelling-place of ennui eternal, is indeed my own. Here is the foolish, dusty, bat- tered furniture, and here the fire-place without flame or ember, befouled with spittle; the sad windows where the rain has traced furrow…
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miserable café and on what she dined; I fol- lowed her to the reading-room, and I watched her a long while, while she sought in the news- papers with quick glancing eyes, long since burnt out by tears, some news of powerful and personal interest. At last, in the afternoon, under a charming autumn sky, one of those skies whence de- scend the armies of regret and of remem- brance, she seated herself in a garden, aside, far from the crowd, to listen to one of those concerts whose regimental music the people of Paris so enjoy. That was doubtless th…
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…d Fanciullo in one of his best moments, tearing asunder at one and the same moment every ear and every heart, and, from that part of the room whence this unex- pected sound of disapproval had leapt, a child, stifled with laughter, ran into the corridor. Fanciullo, shaken, awakened in his dream, first closed his eyes, then opened them almost at once, enormously enlarged; then opened his
1928 · PDF PAGE 177
…ch they experience in rivalling horses? Here are two who belong to a yet more civi- lized order; let me introduce you to the acro- bats room in his absence. A bed of painted wood without curtains; bed-clothes dragging on the floor and full of bugs; two straw chairs, a cast-iron stove, one or two damaged instru- ments of music. Oh, what depressing furniture! But look, I beg you, at these two intelligent personages, clothed in robes at once sumptu- ous and frayed, their hair dressed like trouba- dours or soldiers, who inspect with a wizard- keen…
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… of rose and of musk in the house, and further, behind our little estate, tall masts swinging on the swell; around us, at the end of the room lighted by a rosy light filtered by blinds, decorated with fresh mats and heady flowers, with seats here and there in Portu- guese rococo style of a heavy dark wood, where she would rest herself, so calm, so well at ease, smoking tobacco slightly flavoured with opium; beyond the compound, the noise of light-intoxicated birds, and the chattering of little negresses, and at night, to accompany my dreams, th…