Baudelaire

Baudelaire, quoted in Senior, 95 .. . c est Satan [Hermes] Trismegiste / Qui berce longuement notre esprit enchante, / Et le riche metal de notre volunte / Est tout vaporise par ce savant [aljchimiste. ... 

Baudelaire, 399 03, 419-21. The dandy-Duchamp connection was first developed (and at greater length) by Moira Roth see her MD and America, 1-6,... 

Baudelaire, C. Selected Writings on Art and Artists. Harmondsworth Penguin, 1972. 

Pommier, ]. La mystique de Baudelaire. Paris Belles Lettres, 1932. 

The Marijuana Papers (New American Library, Signet, 1966, David Solomon, ed.) Roll Away the Stone, Regardie, Crowley, Baudelaire, Ludlow etc (Llewellyn Pub., 1968) Marijuana Moonshine, a 60-minute color video cassette on growing marijuana (And/Or, 85)... 

Baudelaire, Arthur affected Paul Gaugin, Vincent absinthistes painted in... 

Cannabis saliva (marijuana, hemp) (Cannabaceae) [cannabis leaf resin (hashish), marijuana leaf extract (bhang), smoked leaf (ganja)] [incorrectly reputed intoxicant of assassins of Hasan-i-Sabbah (story according to Marco Polo) Arthur Rimbaud Pierre Gautier Charles Baudelaire, members of Club des Hachischins ... 

For Benjamin s expression of this, see the section on Baudelaire or the Streets of Paris , in Benjamin s expose of The Arcades Project of 1935... 

Walter Benjamin, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 11, pt 1 (Frankfurt am Main, 1991), p. 378. In English, Benjamin, Selected Writings, vol. 11, pp. 518-19. This definition of aura is repeated in modified but comparable form in 1935 in the Artwork essay and in writings on Baudelaire in 1938. 

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 40-41, 193 Bacteria) endocarditis, 164 "Bad trips," 96, 108, 166 Balzac, Honor6 de, 41 Barbital, 69 Barbiturates, 69-73 Baudelaire, Charles, 19, ird Behavioral problems, drug use and, 167-69... 

Bacchus, 81, 134 Bachelard, Gaston, 70 Bacon, Roger, 39, 96, 136, 137 Baldini, Bacchio, 41, 137, 147 Baldus, 31 Balinas, 91, 93 Ballanche, Pierre-Simon, 46 Baudelaire, Charles, 66 Bernard of Trevisan, 80, 136 Bersuire, Pierre, 26 Berthelot, Marcellin, 49 Beute, Adolph C., 44 Binet, Claude, 33 Birelli, Giovambatista, 135, 155 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 25, 26, 29, 30, 34, 99... 

Far from being disinterested in hashish, however, French scientists seemed very curious and intrigued about its therapeutic potentials. In 1847, the Pharmaceutical Society of Paris posted a prize for the isolation of the active principle in cannabis, which was eventually won in 1857. In 1848, the first doctoral thesis on hashish was written by DeCourtive, whose pharmacopoeia Charles Baudelaire later relied on for much of his information about hashish. 

Baudelaire first met Gautier toward the middle of 1849 thanks to a mutual friend, the artist Fernand Boissaid. Boissard and Gautier were both tenants at the Hotel Lauzun, and in the course of things Baudelaire was invited to attend the meetings of the Hashish Club. Yet, always the loner, Baudelaire rarely accepted the invitation. 

In the preface to his Flowers of Evil (Fleurs du Mai), published in 1868, Baudelaire confesses that he usually avoided these clandestine soirees and that when he did attend, it was only as an observer. Gautier corroborates this confession ... 

The Artificial Paradises is divided into two parts. The first contains Baudelaire s "Poem of Hashish" the second is a translation of de Quincey s Confessions of an Opium Eater. Baudelaire s inclusion of these two works into a single volume was due to his feeling that both drags produced very similar effects. Indeed, it is sometimes impossible to tell whether Baudelaire is writing about opium or hashish in various parts of his "Poem of Hashish". 

Although widely hailed as one of hashish s most articulate and analytical devotees, as well as one of its most tragic victims, Baudelaire was neither devotee nor victim of hashish. He was merely an observer of hashish s effects, and he died not from overindulgence in hashish but from syphilis. Nevertheless, aside from the bitter recriminations expressed at the end of his essay, Baudelaire s Artificial Paradises is unsurpassed as literature s most poetic description of the hashish experience. Gautier later wrote of the book ... 

Medically speaking The Artificial Paradises constitute a very well written monograph of hascheesh, and science might find in it reliable information for Baudelaire piqued himself on being scrupulously accurate, and not for the world would he have allowed the smallest poetic imagery to slip into a subject that was naturally adapted to it. 

Baudelaire begins his discussion by refuting the notion that hashish will transform anyone into an entirely different person. One "will find in hashish nothing miraculous, absolutely nothing but an exaggeration of the natural," he says. "The brain and organism on which hashish operates will produce only the normal phenomena peculiar to that individual - increased, admittedly, in number and force, but always faithful to the original."... 

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