The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Flaneur III [for the Saturday Press]

The Flaneur. "The Flaneur III [for the Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, April 14, 1866, 1.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
commentary
Abstract

The Flaneur muses about the passing of time and recounts a story about a vast cave he once visited. He concludes that life is too precious to spend inside a dark cave. Interaction with other physical life is the key to peace.