Butchering Baudelaire
Clément loves Baudelaire and wrestled his translation of “Lethe” into the daily slice. A collection of Baudelaire’s poems, Les Fleurs du mal, was first published in 1857 by the poet’s friend Auguste Poulet-Malassis. It created a sensation. Eleven hundred copies...
High Voltage Voltaire
Out, out damned hypocrisy! Trust us, every supernatural being loves Voltaire. No, not the dead satirist … the ultra-dark and daring artist-musician. Are you in the 21st Century? Check out his music. It says it all. Folk, goth, darkwave, dark cabaret, new wave, whatever …...
4. The Pachinko Palace
Ryu’s Tokyo was exciting. It was Shibuya[1] with its game rooms, pachinko parlors, love hotels and its boys and girls with torn clothes and bleached hair. His Tokyo was Shinjuku with its high-end western restaurants, Roppongi’s smoking jazz clubs and Ikebukuro with its sleazy hostess...