Feelings are what connect us to other people we know, or maybe even more fleetingly come across. Feelings are hard to pin down--they are usually mixed feelings, for they are connected to a variety of memories and remembered experiences from the past--as well as (joyfully eagerly, hopefully, or maybe fearlfully, anxiously expected) experiences in the future. There are many feelings--and I suspect that to classify them would be a very difficult if not impossible task--somewhat like identifying the trillion or more different kinds of smell human beings have recently been documented to be able to distinguish. Thus smells and feelings both can be inexact, fluctuating sensations which cannot be clearly defined or identified--they are just to fluid and sometimes ephemeral. [From the Baudelaire link] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (French: [ʃaʁl bodlɛʁ]; April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaires highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others. He is credited with coining the term modernity (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.[1]
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