Imagine what he could’ve done with a packaged goods account.

July 15, 2007

Imagine what he could’ve done with a packaged goods account.

Best known for writing the scandalous collection of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a bold modernist.?Ç¬† His genius lay in his anatomies of the masses and modernity — subjects that all we ad folks live and die by.?Ç¬† While we have the internet, the iPhone, and Microsoft to distract us, he had boats to India, censorship, and syphilis. Even so, he still managed to contribute brilliant creative to the world, rouse his contemporaries, and cause society to question vox populi.?Ç¬† He was known for his fastidious work ethic, and left us these words to live by: “Inspiration comes of working every day.”?Ç¬†

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