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Flâneur - Are you one? Been one?

by Joe Mobley
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What did you do? Where did you go? Mode of transportation?

What did you learn, or enjoy, or find?

Without looking, do you know what a flâneur is?

Nassim Taleb
Shopping for Kafka with the Wall Street oracle turned aphorist and self-described flâneur.

"The flâneur goes to the bookstore not knowing what he's going to buy; that's the whole point. "
I like Nassim Taleb. I picked up "flâneur" from Tim Ferriss' interview with Rolf Potts.

[Podcast] Rolf Potts on Travel Tactics, Creating Time Wealth, and Lateral Thinking | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

Joe Mobley
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    yeah,

    it`s rarely used in that sense in actual french.

    Tu es un flaneur.

    means you`re lazy. Like a student that is in a science lab and looks outside for 30 minutes.
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    NOPE, I am not a lounger. But they seem to define it, INCORRECTLY through:

    “The flâneur goes to the bookstore not knowing what he’s going to buy; that’s the whole point. "

    MOST of the time I go to the bookstore, or even a library, it is WITH the idea that I won't know what to read. I won't say much more there except that it at least USED to be about the best way to learn some things. Without even opening a book, or even touching one, I learned a lot. ALAS, selections have gotten smaller, and so much is on line, and the companies I used to LOVE where either local(I moved), or managed to close.

    Steve
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