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The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe’ and the Reading-Effect Notes 4 The Ambiguous Muse 1 However, Proust’s sexuality is still under debate. Although he has long been viewed as homosexual, there is some evidence that he also enjoyed sexual relations with women. See Rivers, Chapter 2 ‘The Private Life of a Genius’, for an extended review of the biographical evidence pertaining to Proust’s sexual history. 5 The ‘Poe-etics’ of Decomposition: ‘The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe’ and the Reading-Effect 1 Carter quipped that in the light of Poe’s enthusiasm for dead and dying women his essay should ‘by rights, be retitled “The Philosophy of Decomposition”’, in ‘Through a Text Backwards’ 487. 6 Musing on Baudelaire: ‘Black Venus’ and the Poet as Dead Beloved 1 In her interview with Kerryn Goldsworthy, Carter said: ‘Whereas Jeanne Duval [...] didn’t want to be a muse; as far as one can tell, she had a per- fectly horrid time being a muse. She felt that she should take Baudelaire for as much as she could get. He treated her, as they say, Quite Well, except that he appears not to have taken her in any degree seriously as a human being. I mean you can’t take a Muse seriously as a human being, or else they stop being a Muse; they start being something that hasn’t come to you to inspire you, but a being with all these problems. Towards the end all Baudelaire’s letters are worrying about her health, and her teeth; but by this time she’d of course stopped being a Muse. You can’t take people seriously and regard them as divine – as something other than human’ (Goldsworthy 11–12). 2 ‘All in all, I believe my life has been damned since the beginning, and that it will always be so.’ (Translation my own) 3 ‘I have seen few possessions so complete, so rapid, so absolute.’ (Translation my own) 4 ‘Hmmph! They accuse me, me, of imitating Edgar Poe! Do you know why I translated Poe so patiently? Because he resembles me.’ (Translation my own) 5 Translated by Walter Martin as: ‘From here on in, I must submit / And take delight in Fate’s commands, / For lovesick martyrdom demands / A victim, 203 9780230284159_12_notes.indd 203 1/12/2012 11:52:35 AM 204 Notes once the fire is lit’ (‘Le Léthé’, trans. Walter Martin, Charles Baudelaire: Complete Poems, Manchester: Carcanet, 1997). 8 Dialectical Dames: Thesis and Antithesis in The Sadeian Woman 1 See: Altevers; Henstra; Keenan; Makinen, ‘Sexual and Textual Aggression’; Rubinson. 2 S.C.U.M. is an acronym for The Society for Cutting up Men. The author of the manifesto, Valerie Solanas, gained worldwide notoriety for shooting Andy Warhol. 9780230284159_12_notes.indd 204 1/12/2012 11:52:36 AM Bibliography Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Seventh edn. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999. 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