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...foreigners. In the International Settlement and the neighboring French Concession, Europeans and Americans watched jai alai on the Avenue du Roi Albert, gambled on greyhounds at the Canidrome, and enjoyed the most glittering night life in the world at such places as the Ambassador, the Casanova and the Venus Café. Shanghai was a city for sale. Almost anything-and almost anyone-could be bought for the right price...
...Louis Friedman thinks that a flotilla of sunjammers could embark on a manned Mars mission by the end of the century, and foresees a day when fleets of huge kites shuttle through space-as the East Indiamen plied the oceans three centuries ago-making regular stops at Mercury, Venus, Mars or the asteroids...
...with lips shaped for sneers and blasphemies. Dress: black with dazzling white shirt and pale pink gloves-Satan as dandy. Add a setting (thick carpets, low lights, leather volumes of the more decadent Latin poets, the fragrance of hashish everywhere, a black girl coming out of the bedroom like Venus rising from the sea) and voila: the essential Baudelaire myth...
...Black Venus. In the areas of personal consolation, reports de Jonge, the self-styled Prince of Clouds did no better. "He had acquaintances but no friends," observed one acquaintance. For 19 years Charles sporadically lived with Jeanne Duval, his "Black Venus," an actress of little distinction but a first-class nag-the last person to appreciate the extraordinary poems she inspired, like The Promises of a Face. More briefly a "White Venus" entered his life: Apollonie Sabatier, a famous salon keeper of the day. She elicited a series of poetic love letters-including...
Shall we send rockets to Venus or feed the poor...