"pedestrian"; "flâneur"; a "gentleman stroller of city streets"; "lounger"; "saunterer"; "loafer"; a "person who walks the city in order to experience it"; an "idle man-about-town"; a "complete philosophical way of living and thinking".
The walls are the desk against which he presses his notebooks; newsstands are his libraries and the terraces of cafés are the balconies from which he looks down on his household after his work is done. -Walter Benjamin,"The Flâneur"
BEN BRYNMOR FOWLER
Currently living in Ebisu, Tokyo. A lover of city living & city walking, cinema, music, fiction, currently writing a PhD on contemporary theatre in Britain and Germany, and developing an intense relationship with apple gadgets.
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Eislaufen gehen! My first ever time on the ice at Eisstadion Neukölln (a short walk from Hermanstraße U-Bahn). I had a very patient teacher who got me round the rink a few times without holding on to the edge. It turns out I’m a bit of an Angsthase. Do all you normal folk just walk onto the ice and skate effortlessly? I remember it took me years to manage a bike without stabilisers and even then it was a huge drama. Maybe I’m destined to a pedestrian life on dry land.
I couldn’t believe how cheap it was, though. 1 Euro 60 with a student card (3.30 without) and then 3 Euro to hire skates, although most people seemed to own their own already. Eat your heart out London ice rinks! And trashy pop music pumping out of the loudspeakers - a little Schlager too, I think.
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byronic said:
Ooooh Schlager! Can we do this together? I’m not very good at it, but I love it. As we know, in a previous life we were both Russian, my dear Masha.
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