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To Look Back Upon the Past Year
A Yuletide reflection from Robert Louis Stevenson
Dec 11
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Andrew Rickard
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Courage
From an essay by Ernst Jünger
Dec 4
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Andrew Rickard
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November 2024
Dancing in 1920s Germany
Isadora Duncan, godmother of the nudie bar?
Nov 27
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Andrew Rickard
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #08
Quails are served. Baudelaire continues to denigrate the Belgians. We meet his chambermaid.
Nov 20
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Andrew Rickard
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #07
The poet and his guest discuss omelettes and air travel.
Nov 13
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Andrew Rickard
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #06
Baudelaire invites Barral to his room for lunch; he has some unkind things to say about Belgian cooking and coffee.
Nov 6
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Andrew Rickard
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October 2024
With Baudelaire in Brussels, #05
Baudelaire refuses an introduction to Leopold I, claiming that he is not dressed well enough to meet royalty.
Oct 30
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Andrew Rickard
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #04
Félix Nadar is about to set off in the Géant, his hot air balloon
Oct 23
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Andrew Rickard
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #03
Baudelaire and Barral order steaks and drink Pommard
Oct 16
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Andrew Rickard
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #02
Monday, 26 September 1864
Oct 9
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Andrew Rickard
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With Baudelaire in Brussels, #01
Introduction and Prologue
Oct 2
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Andrew Rickard
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September 2024
The Happiest Thing I Know
Jean-François Millet on the artistic appeal of difficult, rural life
Sep 25
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Andrew Rickard
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