Post by mossie on Mar 11, 2012 9:35:33 GMT -5
Forgive me some nostalgia.
I quote here from Wikipedia "The term flâneur comes from the French masculine noun flâneur—which has the basic meanings of "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", "loafer"—which itself comes from the French verb flâner, which means "to stroll". Charles Baudelaire developed a derived meaning of flâneur—that of "a person who walks the city in order to experience it[citation needed]". Because of the term's usage and theorization by Baudelaire and numerous thinkers in economic, cultural, literary and historical fields, the idea of the flâneur has accumulated significant meaning as a referent for understanding urban phenomena and modernity. In French Canada flâner is rarely used to describe strolling and often has a negative connotation as the term's most common usage refers to loitering.
Flâneur is not limited to someone committing the physical act of a peripatetic stroll in the Baudelairian sense, but can also include a "complete philosophical way of living and thinking", and a process of navigating erudition as described by Nassim Nicholas Taleb's essay on "why I walk" in the second edition of The Black Swan (2010)"
As I ate my lunch, washed down with a little red wine
, the radio played Andy Williams singing "Music to watch Girls by" 
, and my mind wandered off to a trip to Malta in the early '50s. Here on a Sunday, on the main street, was enacted a typically Mediterranean flanerie. The girls walked down one side of the street and the boys walked down the other, both watching the other side, but carefully avoiding each others eyes, except of course for THE chosen one .
This is what Parisian cafe terraces were really designed for I realised, I'm a terribly slow learner ;D ;D
I quote here from Wikipedia "The term flâneur comes from the French masculine noun flâneur—which has the basic meanings of "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", "loafer"—which itself comes from the French verb flâner, which means "to stroll". Charles Baudelaire developed a derived meaning of flâneur—that of "a person who walks the city in order to experience it[citation needed]". Because of the term's usage and theorization by Baudelaire and numerous thinkers in economic, cultural, literary and historical fields, the idea of the flâneur has accumulated significant meaning as a referent for understanding urban phenomena and modernity. In French Canada flâner is rarely used to describe strolling and often has a negative connotation as the term's most common usage refers to loitering.
Flâneur is not limited to someone committing the physical act of a peripatetic stroll in the Baudelairian sense, but can also include a "complete philosophical way of living and thinking", and a process of navigating erudition as described by Nassim Nicholas Taleb's essay on "why I walk" in the second edition of The Black Swan (2010)"
As I ate my lunch, washed down with a little red wine
, the radio played Andy Williams singing "Music to watch Girls by" 
, and my mind wandered off to a trip to Malta in the early '50s. Here on a Sunday, on the main street, was enacted a typically Mediterranean flanerie. The girls walked down one side of the street and the boys walked down the other, both watching the other side, but carefully avoiding each others eyes, except of course for THE chosen one .This is what Parisian cafe terraces were really designed for I realised, I'm a terribly slow learner
;D ;D
. We got the book at about the same time and he said he almost didn't want to start reading it because he knew he was going to like it..and it would be read too soon! 
Let the riot begin! LOL - 
hahahha