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A Dim Scrying Sight
As ruins and forests were seen through the veils of time by the eyes of the flaneur strolling about the streets of Paris
so nether pictures might be seen through the veils of plot, scenery and characters by the catoptromantic eyes of the visionary reader strolling about the domain of cheap literature …
Perhaps, if the divining reader detects in any of them and wrenchs from any of them certain pictures
and combine between themselves the selected images to compose his own abysmally meaningful objet imaginaire
then cheap novels may be transmuted in imaginative devices as dense as divinatory signs, spawning shorelessly meaningful images and links
—such as La Foret Vierge de la Rue d’Enfer …
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