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The observer is a prince who, wearing a disguise, takes pleasure everywhere. That eminently Parisian compromise between laziness and activity known … - Edmund White
" "The observer is a prince who, wearing a disguise, takes pleasure everywhere.
That eminently Parisian compromise between laziness and activity known as flanerie.
Americans are particularly ill-suited to be flaneurs. They are always driven by the urge towards self-improvement.
In New York you can tell by people's body language that no one cares what other people think of them, whereas in Paris everyone is judging everyone and the only people who have this American-style insouciance are the insane.
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About Edmund White
Edmund White (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. Probably his best-known books are The Joy of Gay Sex (1977) (written with Charles Silverstein) and his trio of autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997).
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Edmund Valentine White III
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