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I won't pretend to know much about Baudelaire but he coined a great term in his writing that I have come to know of. The term is 'Flanneur' and a flanneur is a poet whose environment is the crowd. He merges with the people. He gazes at everyone. He is a great observer of spontaneous manners and movement. He occupies a huge space because he owns none of his own. He possesses a passion for visual performance. He is a living man of imagination. For this reason he resists rationalisation, consumerism, mapping of space, construction and confinement. In short, he resists rigidity. I have recently felt it apt to take this word and anglicise it, make it into a verb. Therefore, I flan.
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