Tuesday, October 21, 2008

News at Eleven: Modernity always defines itself

in relation to a past that it attacks and transforms. Here, the self-proclaimed poet of modernity ("We must be absolutely modern," he had written in A Season in Hell) presents us with the figure of a faun: just the sort of neoclassical kitsch we'd expect him to despise. What does he do with it? He brings it to life, awakening a myth.

from The Atlantic Monthly: "Antique," by Arthur Rimbaud
also The Atlantic Monthly: "Marine," by Arthur Rimbaud

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