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3726447 No.3726447[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

That feel when you'll never be an european flaneur, walking by the streets of London in the late XIX century.

>> No.3726458

I want to believe it's just one guy who learned flaneur from his mom's "Word of the Day" calendar who's posting all these threads/posts.

Sadly, it's probably a team of basement dwellers with some false perception that their NEET lyfestyles are somehow magnificent.

>> No.3726466
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3726466

I'd prefer early XX century Lisboa.

>> No.3726472

>>3726458
I'm not quite sure you know the meaning of this word.

>> No.3726489

1920s Paris would be the most ideal.
>F. Scott Fitzgerald
>Hemingway
>T. S. Eliot

>> No.3726493

>>3726489
and orwell

>> No.3726497

>>3726493
And Owen wilson

>> No.3726501
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>>3726493
>and orwell

>> No.3726504

>>3726489
But no boris vian :(

>> No.3726510

>>3726501
didn't down and out take place in 1920s paris?

>> No.3726524

>>3726458
A flaneur is merely a guy who doesn't have to work and spends his day loafing around town. It's an apt description, you're just angry that a word that isn't downright demeaning is used to relate to your hated nonworkers.

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3726672

That gentilhomme feel.

>> No.3726684

1st century BC Athens would be the best.
It would be like a Classical Athens theme park for rich Romans to learn their trivium.

>> No.3726716
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3726716

>you will never be a court jester

>> No.3726772

>>3726716
I'd rather be a troubadour. You'd get to flirt with the lady of the court with no repercussions.

>> No.3726796
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3726796

>I will never do opium with Shelley

>> No.3726824

>>3726524
Flaneur has nothing to do with having to work or whatever.

It ONLY means someone who walks around, unstressed, enjoying a little stroll.

>> No.3726840
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3726840

>>3726772
I'd rather insult people with no repercussions and go full brilliant insight mode in private with the king so he values me tremendously while everyone else can't make up their mind about hating or loving me me because they can't handle my banter at court but love to see others destroyed by it.

I'd live in a Diogenean tub in the corner of the throne room decorated with lewd drawings.

>> No.3726844

>>3726824
To do that as a lifestyle you can't have a 9 to 5

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3726852

>>3726489
Don't have false hopes anon, they would just hush us away.

>> No.3726857

>You will never have a bromance with a native from Rokovoko, with the landlessness of the sea as your witness.

>> No.3726862

>>3726840
Wow, you're a douche

>> No.3726871

>>3726844
Mais il est fou ce con.

Flaner is a temporary activity, just like jogging or running, it is not a lifestyle, it is not a full time occupation, it is not a hobby, it merely is a state.

You can be a CEO, working 6 to 23 and 'aller flaner' for 15 minutes to take the edge off.

>> No.3726884

>>3726862
Lel, typical noblewoman mad cause I made a cryptic joke about her ass while she was helping herself to another serving of confections.

I'm the king's favourite your husband can't do anything about it.

>> No.3726890

>>3726824
This. Flaner is best practiced at night, or better yet, at sunset. Must feel good to flâne along after a day of hardwork.

>> No.3726896
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>>3726890
No, it sucks. I tried once. Work ruins the delicate nature a man needs to be a proper flaneur.

>> No.3726944

>>3726852
>that patch of longer facial hair

Was he arrested midshave or something?

>> No.3726973
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3726973

>>3726447
Feels bad, man.

>> No.3727036

>Strolling through Scumdon
>any century

lol

>> No.3727071

It is important for a great writer to have experienced the drudgery of work in this modern age in the same way it is important for a writer to experience suffering and sorrow.

But surely this needn't -- and shouldn't -- be a permanent condition. At a point it is important for the writer's life to take precedence. Working odd jobs to support an austere lifestyle is fine.

>> No.3727178

>>3727036
Its dirt is charming.