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seriously as the symbolic vesture of the spirit, and they
regarded the Church as a second body, viewing its every detail
with great completeness. Before James Joyce provided his
detailed image of the metropolis as a second body, Baudelaire
had provided a similar “dialogue” between the parts of the body
extended to form the metropolis, in his Fleurs du Mal .
Electric lighting has brought into the cultural complex of
the extensions of man in housing and city, an organic flexibility
unknown to any other age. If color photography has created
“museums without walls,” how much more has electric lighting
created space without walls, and day without night. Whether in
the night city, the night highway, or the night ball game,
sketching and writing with light have moved from the domain
of the pictorial photograph to the live, dynamic spaces created
by out-of-door lighting.