Flowers of Evil

A new installment of Curriculum of Grace, a series of articles chronicling God’s pursuit of a young man impervious to the teaching of elders.

Hal, my tutor in college, was a huge fan of Baudelaire. For our text sophomore year, he picked out Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil), the French poet’s masterwork about love, putrefaction, and bondage. 

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