From Charles Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
~L
Apr 5, 2012
Flâneurie
“The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flaneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense job to set up house in the middle of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite”
From Charles Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
From Charles Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
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Ahh! I just read Baudelaire for my modernist class!! Oh, this makes me feel closer to you =')
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