Comments on: What should I be? http://www.missionmission.org/2014/07/10/what-should-i-be/ Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Tom http://www.missionmission.org/2014/07/10/what-should-i-be/#comment-101037 Tom Fri, 11 Jul 2014 02:42:11 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=54515#comment-101037 Pick up a copy of Edmund Whites book.

http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-flaneur-9781582342122/

A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through city streets in search of adventure and fulfillment. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians. In the hands of the learned White, a walk through Paris is both a tour of its lush, sometimes prurient history, and an evocation of the city’s spirit.

]]> By: Art school student http://www.missionmission.org/2014/07/10/what-should-i-be/#comment-101035 Art school student Fri, 11 Jul 2014 01:16:24 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=54515#comment-101035 Yeah that definition doesn’t really capture it at all. The flâneur was the casual stroller and observer, an urban stroller born out of 20th century modernity. Read some Baudelaire!

http://psychogeographicreview.com/?p=2568

]]> By: arse http://www.missionmission.org/2014/07/10/what-should-i-be/#comment-101019 arse Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:32:39 +0000 http://www.missionmission.org/?p=54515#comment-101019 a flaneur is someone who wanders the city. it’s more about looking and experiencing. I think you’re already a flaneur.

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