ion necessary for Brewster's industrial delirium is made possible by same forces of modernization that allowed Baudelaire to use kaleidoscope as a model for kinetic experience of the multiplicity of life itself and flickering race of all its elements.44 43. Sir David Brewster, The Kaleidoscope: Its History, Theory, and Construction [1819], rpt. London, John Murray, 1858, pp. 134-136. 44. Charles Baudelaire, Le peintre de la vie moderne, Oeuvres complites, Paris, Gallimard, 1961, p. 1161.
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