In With the In Crowd

Created
Wed, 16/04/2025 - 10:01
Updated
Wed, 16/04/2025 - 10:39

In his mid-nineteenth-century prose poem Crowds, the French symbolist Charles Baudelaire declared that it ‘is not given to everyone to take a bath among the multitude’. More than this, he elaborated in the same poem: [E]njoying the crowd is an art; and he only can make, at the expense of the human race, a lively […]