Theme: Arthur Rimbaud
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On a winter day in 1883, aboard a steamer that was returning him from Marseilles to the Arabian port city of Aden, a French coffee trader named Alfred Bardey struck up a conversation with a countryman he’d met on board, a young journalist named Paul Bourde.Read more
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The gravedigger raises his pick, then drives it, with a cough, into the hard, rocky soil. And there in a black gig, not thirty feet away, sits the old woman draped in black veil, a pool of shadow watching the man’s every move. Read more
