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Flâneur
- tstack 3y agoHah, I just started reading The Story of Diva and Flea[1] to my 5-year-old and "Flea" describes himself as a Flâneur. Still trying to figure out the right way to pronounce it... [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Diva_and_Flea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Diva_and_Flea
- paulspl 3y agoThe "fla" is pronounced with french a sound, as in "ah". The "eur" sound as in "murder"
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agohttps://youtu.be/XEIvtm4FegI?t=26 https://youtu.be/XEIvtm4FegI?t=26 flah-neur
- xnx 3y agoThere's definitely a modern-day digital/online version of this idea.
- nxobject 3y agoA Wikistroller, perhaps.
- gxonatano 3y agoThere's a sense in which this is endemic to Paris: as a city which evolved from a medieval one, with narrow ad-hoc streets snaking all around, it lends itself uniquely to wandering, in a way that New York City, for instance, with its grid system of numbered streets, could not. Walk a straight line in Paris, and you're likely to end up where you started, because of the way the streets curve and intersect. Walk a straight line in New York, and you'll just end up in New Jersey, in some parking lot, questioning all the life choices you made that led to that moment.
- igouy 3y agootoh New York's grid system of numbered streets is an encouragement to wander who knows where with some confidence that you can shortcut and backtrack.
- TacticalCoder 3y agoHmmm... Many parts of the old Paris have been entirely destroyed to make way for gigantic streets / boulevards of Hausmann. I went to Paris quite some times and although there are places with narrow streets, Paris doesn't strike me as a city made of tiny streets where you can easily get lost. It's not as cookie cutter as N.Y. or L.A. but Paris is an artificial city too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...
- simonebrunozzi 3y ago> and you'll just end up in New Jersey, in some parking lot, questioning all the life choices It might have not been intended, but I find this passage quite poetic, and of course full of some sense of... Melancoly, perhaps. Thanks for writing it.
- locopati 3y agoand the feminine version mentioned briefly in the article, flâneuse https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/08/25/radical-flaneuserie/ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/08/25/radical-flane...
- nanomonkey 3y agoAs a flaneur at heart, I assume some day I will retire to be an Umarell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell].
- bejk25 3y agoFlâner in french literally means to loiter in english and is illegal or discouraged in the anglosphere.