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through many cuts. Se déchiqueter: to mutilate oneself.
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    Contrast it to calm, rounded flowers: arum, lilies, camellias, tuberoses.
    Not that it’s crazy, but it is violent (though well compacted, put together within reasonable limits).
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    At stem-tip, from an olive, from a supple acorn of leaves, the luxurious marvels of its linen come unbuttoned.
    Carnations, those marvelous rags.
    How clean they are.

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    Breathing them in, you feel a pleasure whose flip side would be a sneeze.
    Seeing them, the pleasure you feel at a glimpse of underpants with fine-cut lace, of a young girl who attends to her linens.
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    For “ se déboutonner, ” to unbutton or unburden oneself, to come unbuttoned, “unbudded” see bouton, button or bud. See also cicatrice, scar.
    Bouton: checked, avoid bringing together bout, end, and bouton, or even déboutonner in one sentence, since it is the same word (from bouter, to shove).
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    And naturally, all is but movement and passing, otherwise life, death, would be incomprehensible.
    Thus if they were to invent a pill for dissolving in vases to give the carnation eternal life – by nourishing its cells with mineral extracts – it would still not survive for long as a flower, since the flower is only a moment of the individual, which plays out its role as the species prescribes.
    (These first six pieces, the night of June 12 to 13, 1941, in the presence of the white carnations in Mme Dugourd’s garden.)

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    At stem’s tip, coming unbudded from a supple olive of leaves, a marvelous ruffle of cool satin with crevices of verdant snow still harboring a bit of chlorophyll, whose perfume stimulates the nostrils with pleasure just short of a sneeze.
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    Paper frill crinkled dust cloth
Luxurious cool satin rag
Luxurious dust cloth finely laced
Crinkled rag of cool satin
Luxurious kerchief finely laced
Luxurious frippery in cool satin
Lustrous
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    Ruffle paper frill or kerchief
Luxurious rag finely laced
Dust cloth
Cool satin finely laced
Fragrant frothy frenzied
Stem tip green bamboo

Swelling of polished fingernail
Supple knob bulging with leaves
Multiple fragrant sachets
From which the frothy dress gushes
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    Beacon in a buttonhole
Projector
Portable lamp
Magondo
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    Ruffle dust cloth kerchief
Togs frippery tatters
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    Billows of linens or ruff
Of cool satin
Opulent assembly
Competition association
Demonstration gathering
Of petals done in humid cloth
Coolly satined

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    Throng pouring out of communion in a spreading stream
Or finely laced white underpants of a young girl who attends to her linens
Continually giving off the sort of perfume
That threatens such pleasure – bringing you to the verge of a sneeze
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    Trumpets filled gorged choked
By the redundance of their own expression
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    Throats entirely choked by tongues
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    Their pavilions their lips shredded
By the violence of their cries of their expressions
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    Puckered creased crimped crushed
Fringed festooned flogged
Rumpled buckled cockled
Quilled waffled curled
Slashed ripped pleated tattered
Flounced whorled waved denticulated
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    Creamy foamy snowy white
Homogeneous blended
Perfect bouquet Ready-made bouquet

Sprung from the supple acorn from the supple pointed olive
That it forces ajar that it splits
At the tip of its slim green bamboo stem
With the well-spaced polished swellings
And tongued as simply as possible
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    But with July approaching
The carnation is unbudding
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    At the tip of its slim green bamboo stem with the polished well-spaced bulges from which two symmetrical leaves come unsheathed very simple little sabers successfully swells an acorn a supple pointed olive that’s forced ajar that’s rent into carnation from which unbuds
    a ruffle of cool satin marvelously crumpled a ruff profuse with little tongues