Marcela's Musing

Reading Quirkyalone
Some "a-ha" moments: pp 72-3 "quirkyalone=flaneur, not loner"

In The Flaneur: A Stroll Through Paris, Edmund Wilson describes a flaneur as "that aimless stroller who loses himself in the crowd, who has no destination and goes wherever caprice or curiosity directs his or her steps." The flaneur is a wanderer and observer ambling through a city without apparent purpose but secretly in search of adventure...John, 42: "I believe pretty strongly that you meet more people when you are alone. If you are traveling as a couple you are walled off from those travel miracles."...Quirkyalones can drift so far away in our heads that we forget that we have bodies. (Even the flaneur, according to Wilson, can spend so much time wandering aruond the city that he forgets to eat) [Guilty as charged! MM]

p. 5 "Quirky means taking an experimental approach to adulthood, not always following an automatic path. It's appreciating benefits of alienation: realizing that living off predefined grid can be freeing and fruitful.A certain introversion may be inherent: you have the ability to amuse yourself, to set your own code of behavior and live in your own world."

"Mejor estar solo que mal acompañado." Mexican proverb

Jesus as quirkyalone?? Ok, maybe that's going a little overboard...