{"id":7397,"date":"2016-04-04T13:34:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2016-04-04T13:34:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T17:34:15","slug":"a-celle-qui-est-trop-gaie-or-baudelaire-is-a-sick-sick-puppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/04\/04\/a-celle-qui-est-trop-gaie-or-baudelaire-is-a-sick-sick-puppy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celle Qui Est Trop Gaie, or, Baudelaire is a sick, sick puppy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can arguably translate <a href=\"http:\/\/fleursdumal.org\/poem\/138\"><em>A Celle Qui Est Trop Gaie<\/em><\/a> to <em>To a Bitch Who&#8217;s Too Hot for Her Own Good.<\/em> And then it goes into a particularly virulent permutation of Baudelaire&#8217;s favorite theme, the Misogynist DeathSex. I mean, seriously &#8212; I don&#8217;t even want to write about it &#8212; it&#8217;s <em>that <\/em>repulsive. Let&#8217;s just say that I was woefully underinformed when I made the sophomoric judgment [literally] that this individual was the best poet of the French language.<\/p>\n<p>Media I can no longer bring myself to partake in:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>anything having to do with <em>Rocky Horror<\/em><\/li>\n<li>pretty much anything by or about Charles Baudelaire the racist, sexist, classist, misogynist wonder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;ll make exceptions for the following:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fleursdumal.org\/poem\/103\">Correspondances<\/a><\/em> for the synaesthesia<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fleursdumal.org\/poem\/161\">Spleen<\/a> <\/em>for the sheer Gothiness<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fleursdumal.org\/poem\/171\">Le Revenant<\/a><\/em> for evoking the dubious allure of the sexy vampire in just 16 lines<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fleursdumal.org\/poem\/180\">Femmes Damnees<\/a><\/em> because of the queer women, some actual character development, and the fact that I got word-drunk on it and wrote an exhaustive paper about it, and I AM IGNORING THE LAST FOUR STANZAS, OKAY?!<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fleursdumal.org\/poem\/203\">La Chevelure<\/a><\/em> for giving my French teachers a legit means of classroom introduction to the concept of sexual fetishes, as well as exoticism, and also for introducing me to a beautiful word that I really wish we had in English<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can arguably translate A Celle Qui Est Trop Gaie to To a Bitch Who&#8217;s Too Hot for Her Own Good. And then it goes into a particularly virulent permutation of Baudelaire&#8217;s favorite theme, the Misogynist DeathSex. I mean, seriously &#8212; I don&#8217;t even want to write about it &#8212; it&#8217;s that repulsive. Let&#8217;s just&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/04\/04\/a-celle-qui-est-trop-gaie-or-baudelaire-is-a-sick-sick-puppy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Celle Qui Est Trop Gaie, or, Baudelaire is a sick, sick puppy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[672,696],"class_list":["post-7397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books-i-actually-like","tag-books-that-piss-me-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7398,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}