ABSTRACT
Many different strategies may be used to tentatively solve the puzzle of Baudelaire's text. Literary scholars who would like to avoid such difficulties have in fact very little to do with the shared space of thinking that oeuvres transiently construct. The intellective space where this unacceptable string of words signify is transiently accessed through the performance of cognition, which includes the demise of its very algorithmic progression. In contradistinction with the widespread faith in the "anterior regime" of literature, it posit the literary in a post hoc moment, and certainly not at the beginning, the origin, the source, or the Urgrund of anything. With contradictions—it all begins with the very reality of fiction, and the author's willful participation in this; it is constantly reenacted through verbal discrepancy and syntactic dislocation, supporting a non-consistent use of informal logic. The cognitive, then, is not something made up by contemporary cognitive science.
