For sharing your gifts, from Paris Spleen, translated by Louise Varèse.
from The Fairies’ Gifts / by Charles Baudelaire
I refer to the law that, in such a case as the present when gifts run short, gives a Fairy the power to accord one more gift, provided she has imagination enough to create one on the spot.
For a funny but sad scene, from Paris Spleen, by Charles Baudelaire.
from Cake / by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Louise Varese
But why describe the hideous fight which lasted longer than their childish strength had seemed to warrant? The cake traveled from hand to hand and changed pockets at every instant, changing, alas! in size as well…
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