Word: sense
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throw on the priests" he passes. But it became necessary for Verlaine to rent a separate room for Rimbaud. There the two poets somewhat absinthe-mindedly achieved that "long et raisonné dérèglement de tons les sens" (long and calculated derangement of all the senses) which was Rimbaud's purpose in debauchery...
...French Academy; his Jeanne D'Arc won the Femina Vie Heureuse prize. A great Rabelaisian scholar, he is a hard worker, socially timid. Says he: "I am a citizen of the world, and a man of flesh and blood. To write is to make love. I place the senses higher than the brain. I should like all my books to provide the same pleasure as a woman gives. I have five senses and I use them all." Other books: Sur La Fleuve Amour (The River Amour), Cholera, Les Cinq Sens...