Hello, my name is Tom. Welcome. Thanks for stopping by.
Below you will find a list of five obscurish words. These words describe both myself and my website. Glance over them.
If any of them resonate, if any of them pique your interest and make you say ‘that’s me’ or ‘this is what I’ve been looking for’ then you are in the right place.
If not, then not. I appreciate you paying me a visit all the same. I hope you find what you are looking for out there in cyberspace.
Here come the five words.
Ready?
Here we go:
Autodidact– a person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education; a self-taught person.
Feuilleton (a diminutive of French: feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the latest fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles. Source= Wikipedia
Flâneur, (from the French noun flâneur, means “stroller”, “lounger”, “saunterer”, or “loafer”.) Flânerie is the act of strolling, with all of its accompanying associations. A near-synonym is ‘boulevardier’. He is an ambivalent figure… representing the ability to wander detached from society with no other purpose than to be an acute observer of society. Source= Wikipedia
Idler- ‘Idleness’ [from the Old English word for ‘worthless, useless’] may look to the untrained eye like laziness, slacking, killing time. Unlike slacking, though, idling is not the opposite of hard work, but is instead a hard-won mode in which your art is your work and your work is your art.’ Source= Glenn & Kingwell- The Idler’s Glossary
Zuihitsu– a genre of Japanese literature consisting of loosely connected personal essays and fragmented ideas that typically respond to the author’s surroundings. The name is derived from two Kanji meaning “at will” and “pen.”Source= Richie- A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
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Are you with me still?
Are you tired of the hyperstimulated, busy bee hustle culture with all of its attendant vanity, hysteria, noise, frivolity, greed and emptiness?
Well, if you are you may well have happened across a sanctuary here.
Or across the ramblings of one of the laziest men in England. You’ll have to read on and decide for yourself, my friend.