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Flâneur
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Flâneur To succumb to the fleshly stream of the crowd trafficking in the equivocal light of this sea-girt place. To keep oneself a stranger and a pilgrim. Vestige of fishermen long gone, tourist among charlatans and ten-cent emotions of the Ripley’s Arcade. Silver and pixilated, Robot Man dances in a mechanized delirium. Coins travel their solitary ways in the penny arcades. To lurk in the diversions of five minutes ago — worlds in passing — always and nowhere going fast. The ink of this ilk turns back and circles in a blue snow of the interior, in needling tracks, the thousand junctures where hunger and chaos meet in theory, meet in practice. To spiral loosely around a certain stony bench, in an uncertain perfume somebody left behind. The shape of her coming to mind in evening’s bustle: The opening mouth, the suggestive evaporation. 13 ...