Thursday 6 October 2011

Le Flaneur




"Empathy is the nature of the intoxication to which the flâneur abandons himself in the crowd. He . . . enjoys the incomparable privilege of being himself and someone else as he sees fit. Like a roving soul in search of a body, he enters another person whenever he wishes"
Walter Benjamin - Charles Baudelaire: A lyric poet in the era of high capitalism

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