Paris is truly for flaneurs

[lapsedmodernist]

And I am a natural-born flaneur. I think that if I were a specter, I would haunt a city like Paris or New York--it would come so naturally to me, as in the right kind of city on a right day I am overwhelmed by the feeling that my flesh is light and translucent, permeable by sunlight, and my sentience merges with the white noise and the molecular vibration of the city layers.

On Saturday rezendi and I went to the 20th Arrondissement, to the Père Lachaise Cemetery, where I made sure to check on the be-lipsticked grave of Oscar Wilde, and thought of missmimesis and also of:

And between his spells of labour in the time he has to spare / He can curse the god that made him for the colour of his hair



So here are the photos from this layer of Paris


this way, through the frame


feet and a hat


inscription


Sepulture


gentleman


art nouveau


the spirits of the Paris commune


Bible scene


the ivy and the crucifix


light, on its way


focus on the pocketwatch

Comments

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Very excellent!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

they are not carved, they are...sculpturally integrated into it? It's like the opposite of being carved into something, because they are extruding from the walls, but they are out of the same stone material. It's more like an elaborate sculpture where most of it is a wall, but part of it is faces and body parts. They are the spirits of the Paris Commune!

[angiereedgarner.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

happy to please!

[beginnersmind.livejournal.com]

Breathless！

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

<3

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

I wish I could remember what I was told regarding the cock on Oscar Wilde's tombstone. Apparently there was one, originally, and it was forcibly removed. I don't recall all the lipstick marks from when I was there, but I quite like them!

tilt intentional?

[sinthome.livejournal.com]

i'm looking at your photos and i notice that they all have a similar thing going on. vertical lines seem not to be vertical; they point or tilt or lean, rather, to north by northwest. is that intentional? it seems like you took a lot of these pictures from oblique angles (called, not without a certain humor in this case, a "dutch tilt").

apropos of nothing

[mjmj.livejournal.com]

so, i'm putting it here in an "old" posting. you likely know about this, but just in case...

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