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1889.
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The Eiffel Tower is built and
the box camera comes into production.
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Vincent Van Gogh paints
Landscape with Olive Trees
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and Wheat Field with Cypresses.
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And Adolf Hitler is born.
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In French literature,
the Symbolists
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hold full sway in Paris.
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Verlaine, Huysmans,
the poet Mallarmé.
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A rebellion against Naturalism is now
taking place in the French capital.
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Amongst the painters,
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the older generation has already
paved the way for the breakthrough.
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Puvis de Chavannes,
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Gustave Moreau
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and Odilon Redon,
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who emphasizes the role
role played by the sub-conscious
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in an artist's work.
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When I light the lamp, I suddenly
see my own enormous shadow
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over the entire wall,
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In the great mirror above the fireplace
I see myself, the face of my own ghost,
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and I live with the dead.
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All it said was, "Dearest,
come at eight o'clock tomorrow."
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I stared at each letter, each stain,
for the marks of her fingers.
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Did she love me
or was she pretending?
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Did she love me or the other
or both at the same time?
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"You are the vampire
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"which sucks my sparkling blood