He called him (it was always a man) a flâneur. The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for the fish, he wrote. His passion and his profession is to wed the crowd. . . . To be away from home, but to feel oneself everywhere at home.
Elaine Sciolino
He called him (it was always a man) a flâneur. The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for the fish, he wrote. His passion and his profession is to wed the crowd. . . . To be away from home, but to feel oneself everywhere at home.