Better Smellers are More Sympathetic, Study Says Oct 13, 2009
Authors such as Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, and Albert Camus have produced works that tie rich scent references to emotions. These literary works inspired study co-author Denise Chen, a sociochemist at Rice University in Texas, to wonder if there was a link between smell and emotions. (National Geographic)
Charles Baudelaire Aug 13, 2009
The Edgar Allen Poe of Paris. mso-style-name:"Table Normal". (Suite101.com)
Charles Baudelaire, the Edgar Allen... Aug 13, 2009
Charles Baudelaire, the Edgar Allen Poe of Paris. Charles Baudelaire, the Edgar Allen Poe of Paris ... Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a prominent European poet, critic, and writer of prose who derived much inspiration from his American contemporary, Edgar Allen Poe. (Suite101.com)
Public interest RIP Jun 18, 2009
As Charles Baudelaire once said, "Speak of the devil, and the devil appears." Suddenly, mark-to-model bank asset accounting was added to the Newspeak financial dictionary, and mark-to-market cast out to the dustbin of history. I've written before about how many free-market conservatives, believing that nothing so wrong as what we see in the present could possibly go wrong with their visions of endless laissez-faire paradises, chose instead to blame it all on an obscure accounting rule called... (Asia Times Online)
Absinthe and the Arts Apr 30, 2009
French writers and poets like Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine and Guy de Maupassant all partook, and some wrote about their experiences or attributed their creativity to the fabled green fairy. Ernest Hemingway was also a fan, as was Oscar Wilde, who often referred to absinthe in his work, and who once wrote, After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. (Suite101.com)
The albatross: flying high, again... Feb 23, 2009
An albatross is the central emblem in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and a metaphor used in Charles Baudelaire s poetry. The name albatross is derived from the Arabic meaning for a pelican and the Portuguese form Alcatraz, which is also the origin of the name of the former prison. (Independent)
