the parisian prowler

for a few moments i persistently tried to understand this mystery. but soon insurmountable apathy swooped down upon me, and i was more heavily oppressed than they were themselves by their overwhelming chimeras.~baudelaire, 'to each his chimera'annoyed with everyone and annoyed with myself, i long to redeem myself and to bolster my pride a bit in the silence and solitude of the night. souls of those i have loved, souls of those i have sung, fortify me, sustain me, remove me from untruth and the world's corrupting fumes.~baudelaire, 'at one o'clock in the morning'