Index V — Enumerations

Enumerations

We provide below a convenient diagram of the fronts, represented by dots, and of the other compartments,
mentioned in brackets:

-0°).//-1°)(La)..(un)..(de)../-2°)...(de)../-3°)(L')...(à).(des).(de)./-4°)....(des)..//-5°).(de)..(qui)(de).../-6°).(une).
(et)../-7°)..(la)..(comme)(la)./-8°)(Les).(les).(et)(les)...//-9°)(Il).(des)...(des).(d')./-10°)..(les)...(les)./-11°)(Et)
(d')...(et).//-12°).(l').(des)../-13°).(l').(le).(le).(et)(l')./-14°)..(les).(de)(l').(et)(des).

For paragraph 77 in particular, it is necessary to start after (1); take away (3) and (4), which gives 55 fronts
up to the finish, to which should be added the 7 from “/////(L')homme passe (à) travers (des) forêts (de)
symboles Qui l'/////observent avec des regards familiers” (Man passes through forests of symbols Which
observe him with familiar eyes). The result of 62 fronts is thus reached.

For paragraph 79, with the following words “choses du temple” (things of the temple), the text is considerably
modified, but the calculation just requires some patience. On the basis of paragraph 80, (1) and (2) are
replaced by “En ce temple les piliers/////(de) (la) Nature (sont) vivants (et) Laissent parfois sortir (de)
confuses paroles…” (In this temple the pillars of Nature are living and Let forth at times confused words…)
The fronts are then counted from the third line (3) in a more ordinary way. Then (8) should be removed; and
after (14) we add “/////(Les) parfums, (les) couleurs (et) (les) sons (de) (leurs) belles voix mêlées
se/////répondent” (Perfumes, colours and sounds of their beautiful mingled voices answer each other). Thus
57 fronts are preserved for (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), and 7 can be added to them
for the imagined beginning, with 7 more for the ending changed in the manner described above. The total is
therefore 71.

The number of fronts for the sonnet is 74; an estimate is used in paragraph 106: 1 for the title; 23 with the
first quatrain; 20 with the second; 16 for the first tercet; 14 for the second. In paragraph 115 the distance from
«homme» to the term «parfums» in the eighth line is given as 26 fronts. Paragraph 122 indicates that there
are 37 fronts between «Nature» and «parfums»; 38 between «Nature» and «couleurs»; 35 from «temple» to
«parfums» again from the eighth line and finally 36 from «temple» to «couleurs», all this being taken up
again in paragraph 123.

In 127 the count from 53 is used for the distance between «temple» and «corrompus» (temple-corrupt)
adding 2 fronts for the distance from «Nature» to «corrompus» (Nature-corrupt). Paragraph 130 has 15
fronts from «corrompus» to «sens» (corrupt-senses). In 135 a modified text gives 59 fronts between “piliers”
and “forêts” (pillars-forests): 5 fronts must be counted for the second line then (20+16+14), that is 50 for the
second quatrain and the tercets, and finally “homme”, “y”, “passe” and “travers” which makes 5+(20+16+14)+
4=59. Some of the amounts counted in 122 are taken up again in 136.

The figures from 130 concerning the distance from “corrompus” to “sens” (corrupt-senses) are re-used in 140
for its first cover. With the inversion of the tercets an quatrains the distance corrompus-Nature (corrupt-
Nature) only requires the 16 fronts after “corrompus”, since “Nature” is the first term after “sens”. In the
second cover the distance sens-corrompus (senses-corrupt) is 4 fronts, “est”, “savoir”, “s'”, “ils”; that for
encens-corrompus (incense-corrupt) is 9, “Qui”, “chantent”, “transports”, “esprit”, “sens”, “est”, “savoir”, “s'”,
“ils”; that of sens-Nature (senses-Nature) is 8 fronts: “est”, “savoir”, “s'”, “ils”, “corrompus”, “riches”,
“triomphants”, “Or”.

In paragraph 142 the 28 fronts from «parfums» to «encens» must be enumerated, followed by the 30 fronts
separating the same term in the eighth line, «parfums», from «chantent»: 28+2 from «encens» and «Qui»
which are extra. In paragraph 145 we can count 15 fronts between «Nature» and «symboles» and then 10
from «piliers» to «symboles», and we explain besides the other figures supplied. The bases of the count in
paragraph 151 come from 122 and 123.

To understand paragraph 152, it must be compared with 142, and then the 41 fronts from «Nature» to
«répondent», counted, which is consistent with the 43 fronts in the quatrains. Furthermore 68 fronts can be
counted from «Nature» to «chantent», which is not surprising in view of the 74 fronts in the sonnet. In
paragraphs 153-160 the distances can be counted using the figures already given. The enumerations of
fronts used in parts III, IV and V of the essay will be obvious to anyone able to understand the preceding
parts.

Let us consider the example we introduced in paragraph 349: “God or society needs you,/////resonating
chambers, instruments of warning: at an important time in the gradual change in mores, he also played a
role,/////Baudelaire!” Between the divisions, we count 13 fronts. This gives z=2+(1(13/10)). These 13 fronts
are “resonating”, “chambers”, “instruments”, “warning”, “important”, “time”, “in”, “gradual”, “change”, “mores”,
“he”, “played”, “role”. In total, 7 compartments are omitted: “of”, “at”, “an”, “the”, “in”, “also”, “a”.