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Une Charogne
also: A Carcass
Baudelaire's poem in Les Fleurs du mal, in which lovers come upon a rotting carcass; Malte cites it for the artist's duty to see being beneath the repugnant.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §124 Une Charogne
'A Carcass', Baudelaire's poem in Les Fleurs du mal in which the lovers come upon a rotting carcass on a summer walk; Malte cites it for the duty of seeing the Being that endures beneath even the repugnant.