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resilient, up to every trick of the trade, with an infallible eye for recognizing false news at a glance, capable of judging what is to be said and what left unsaid, of anticipating what will affect public opinion. And he must be able to present it in such a way as to exaggerate its effect.

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p 20 ... Bel-Ami's own success owes more to his shrewd use of his good looks and roving penis than to any skill as a reporter...

(from the introduction)

Knoedler exhibition catalogue 1983 Klimt, Schiele, Ensor, Kubin.

Death, Dream and Adventure - the draughtsmen Ensor and Kubin by Barbara Catoir

p 164 Michel Foucalt sees the 19 century as having discovered a "religion of the imagination"

"These Phantasms no longer inhabit the realm of night, the sleep of reason, the emptiness that yawns in the face of longing; they

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now invade our waking hours, they creep up on the most untiring watchfulness, interrupt the scholar's industry, surprise the sharpest lookout. The chimeric assumes shape on the black and white surface of the printed page ... it spreads itself in the silent library with its rows and rows of books, sealing it off from the outside world, while opening up inside to the most impossible worlds."

Masses of minute bits of information, fragments of monuments, reproductions of reproductions, have allowed modern experience to acquire the powers of the impossible.

p 164

The simple mind does not give birth to monsters. The devil slips out from between the pages of the book.

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Error was above all else an eye-minded person, an aesthete. And the rules of aesthetics still counted for him even where the spectral took over, where reality began to crumble. Painting for him meant "seeing," whereas