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Flaneur

An Idler.

One who walks the city streets doing nothing but luxuriate in his idleness.

A highly desirable state to be striven for, idly.

Not to be confused with a flannel.

Perhaps the most accomplished Flaneur was Gerard De Nerval who minced the streets of C19th Paris with a live lobster on a ribbon.

When asked why he did this he replied...

"Because it does not bark and it knows the secrets of the sea".

A man after our own hearts.