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Monday, October 24, 2022
Windows Looking In and Out....
The following is an extract from Baudelaire's work Les Fenêtres in Le Spleen de Paris....
Celui qui regarde du dehors à travers une fenêtre ouverte, ne voit jamais autant de choses que celui qui regarde une fenêtre fermée. Il n’est pas d’objet plus profond, plus mystérieux, plus fécond, plus ténébreux, plus éblouissant qu’une fenêtre éclairée d’une chandelle. Ce qu’on peut voir au soleil est toujours moins intéressant que ce qui se passe derrière une vitre. Dans ce trou noir ou lumineux vit la vie, rêve la vie, souffre la vie....
The person looking from outside in through an open window never sees as much as the being peering through a closed one. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more telling, more insidious, more dazzling than a window illuminated by a single candle. That which can be seen in sunlight is always less interesting than that which takes place behind a windowpane. For in that black or luminous square Life lives, Life dreams, Life suffers...
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