Flaneuring bil Lébnéné = “shmm hawa” or, better, “re5iya”, or “2awwas 3ind rabbna” (about men of leisure).
Category: Flaneuring
I am going on a linguistic trip. Alone, just to tawk & listen to the local language to get inspiration for the Lebanese neo-Phoenician writing system.
The busiest museum section I’ve ever visited
Friends, looking for reliable accounts on Spanish gypsies, one that is not written by some English or Cultural Studies professor. Gitanos should be able to teach us a few things about flaneuring, survival, & soul in the music.
John Gray in New York for some flaneuring in spite of the weather.
1/ Conversation with John Gray. Any “thinker” who strays from the allowed script experiences something similar to leprosy. 2/ Michael Oakeshot the philosopher of small “c” conservatism had at some point six mistresses, all wives of leftist professors. 3) A long, 4 hour conversation with Isiah Berlin would consist in 3 hours and 50 minutes of gossip. 4) Pagans unlike monotheists and atheists don’t have heresies.5) Gray discussed 19th C Russian writers who were like me, both Orthodox & classical pagans, e.g. Merezhkovsky
John Gray flaneuring at the Met
In flaneurmobile with coach Rippetoe; he promised a one rep max of 500 lbs within 1-2 years.
Russia is a place where doing mathematics in a café in a central district is very, very normal.
Paris: a school named after a high school dropout; rebellious poem on the wall. Did they notice the contradiction?
