Sarah Ferguson interviews Fran Lebowitz about her opinions and observations on modern life as a flaneur.
SARAH FERGUSON : People around the world queue up in theatres to hear your opinions and views on things. What's your opinion about that? FRAN LEBOWITZ: Well, I'm very grateful, because unfortunately I'm not an heiress, although I'd be an excellent one. So I'm very happy they do that.
SARAH FERGUSON: I was thinking about what the words are that describe you, and in some ways you are maybe the last flaneur, you know, the archetype of the person wandering around the boulevards observing modern life. Is it a reasonable description of what you do? FRAN LEBOWITZ: Yeah, I think it is a pretty good description but I mean, I feel like the, people very often will stop me as I'm walking and say, "I'm sorry to interrupt you." Because they think that the walking around is some formal thing I do, like I'm in the middle of a scientific experiment. But also, it's because everyone else is looking at their phone. To me, it's like an unbelievable gift. It's like the whole world said, "Fran, you can have the world. We're not going to be looking at it. We're just going to look at our phon
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