Tag: Flaneur
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A Winter River
The morning of the freeze there is beeverish activity on the river. What was yesterday a moving body of water is today as hard as stone. Groups of sweepers with brooms walk upon the ice, brushing away the snow which has come with the overnight freeze.
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A Walk Around a Lake in Shenyang…
Siberian gusts blow dry leaves which swirl and scratch along the paving slabs around the man’s tai-chi slippers. Dressed in a baggy blue felt tracksuit, his movements are slow and graceful. He is aware of my sitting watching him but makes no obvious sign of feeling observed. I know nothing about tai-chi but sense he…
Bardo travel: Writings on experience and place 