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Fatal glaciers, crags cranks climb, jumbled boulder and weed, pasture and boulder, scree It takes some getting used to. There are the Alps, fools! Sit down and wait for them to crumble! Well, yes, I guess I shall end up scribbling much the same thing. And the comparison immediately suggests the problem. Even Bunting is scribbling to keep his spirits up. Admiring the Cantos is one thing, reading them another. There will never be a shortage of cranks climbing the crags, using the latest featherlite interpretative equipment, but will there be strollers?
Will people enjoy themselves? At this altitude will they learn anything? For what we have in The Arcades Project is the wreckage of a book that did not get written. Hitler, exile, poverty, despondency, the fall of France, fear, flight and suicide got in the way. And maybe the project itself careered out of control before the final disaster. Any reader will develop opinions on that subject well in advance of page Benjamin came to Paris for much the same reasons as other artists and intellectuals in the early 20th century, and adopted much the same way of life.
He was in love with modern French literature, and out of love with his native academy. Paris was up-to-date and old-fashioned, with the two conditions coexisting street by street or shop by shop: you could take a detour through the s each morning on your way to work.
In the beginning, for two years or so from , Benjamin seems to have planned a study of Paris in the 19th century which would have had as its centre β its looking and burning-glass β the network of dusty covered shopping streets with greenhouse roofs, most of them built in the s, which still dreamed on in the Jazz Age, cluttered with stores specialising in trusses and life-size dolls and used false teeth. It was the kind of place Benjamin gravitated to, and in any case the Surrealists had discovered and celebrated the passages a few years before.
Would it be an essay or prose poem or full-scale book? But for Benjamin waking, we shall see, involved first falling more deeply asleep.