“The sun overwhelms the city with its straight, terrible light; the sand is dazzling and the sea shimmers. The stunned world slumps and naps, a savory death where the half-awake sleeper savors the voluptuousness of his annihilation.”

“The sun crushes the city under its direct and terrible light; the sand is dazzling and the sea is shimmering. The stupefied world drops and is having a nap, a savory death in which the sleeper, half awake, tastes the exquisite pleasures of his own annihilation.”

(Baudelaire – La belle Dorothée)