Paul Verlaine

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This was the calamity. Verlaine’s frail character readily submitted to unfamiliar impacts; it got dulled affected by his companions, “and the oust started.” An unfamiliar component entered his being, a materialistic pessimistic attribute, for the present just gaminerie, while he was as yet an alien to sex. The particular Parisian character, a blending of vanity, discourteousness, jeering mind (raillerie) and pretentious swagger, enticed the delicate marvelous kid, however vanquished him just for brief hours.