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Rimbaud, Arthur - Reality - always too troublesome for my exalted character
Identifier
007127
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Arthur Rimbaud – from Rimbaud Complete [translated by Wyatt Mason]
Reality -always too troublesome for my exalted character – I nonetheless found myself chez Madame, transformed into a big, blue-grey bird, soaring near the ceiling’s moldings, trailing my wings through evening showers. At the foot of the baldachino that held her beloved jewels and bodily charms, I became a giant bear with purple gums and thick, miserable fur, eyes fixed on the crystal and silver on the sideboard.
Shadows swam, a torrid aquarium. In the morning – pugnacious June dawn – I ran to the fields, an ass, braying and brandishing my grief, until Sabines from the suburbs threw themselves upon my breast.
The source of the experience
Rimbaud, ArthurConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
RealityScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Drinking absintheSuppressions
Cannabis and marijuanaMaking love
Suppression of learning