Althouse: "I was searching for an idea.... So I decided to follow people.... just to use people's energy as a motor.... I loved not having to decide. I loved that errance, that promenade through other people's decisions...."

Hulyo 27, 2026

"I was searching for an idea.... So I decided to follow people.... just to use people's energy as a motor.... I loved not having to decide. I loved that errance, that promenade through other people's decisions...."

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Aggie ayon kay ...: So in other words, she's a stalker.; 7/27/26, 9:08 AM
rcommal ayon kay ...: My first "gut" when I read the headline was: "Creepy!"

But then I listened to her, and it was pretty fascinating and thought provoking. I'll have to noodle it over.; 7/27/26, 9:09 AM
jim5301 ayon kay ...: What if you have two people who decide to follow each other?; 7/27/26, 9:15 AM
RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...: So she's a stalker. But harmless.; 7/27/26, 9:21 AM
Kai Akker ayon kay ...: Does a visual artist -- of real artistic level capacity -- speak this way? "I loved that relation without reciprocity." And not in her native language.

Or, sorry to stephen cooper et al, is this the language of grant applications, media maneuvering, and over-intellectualization over the artistic impulse?; 7/27/26, 9:23 AM
RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...: The observer. The eavesdrooper. Living vicariously through them. Making other people into characters into a movie inside your head.

She makes it seem cool.; 7/27/26, 9:23 AM
rcommal ayon kay ...: “ l[start italics]What if you have two people who decide to follow each other?[end italics]

I Palindrome I; 7/27/26, 9:23 AM
RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...: I want to go to Paris and follow her following other people. Let me get in on the action. And my wife can follow me.; 7/27/26, 9:24 AM
Quaestor ayon kay ...: louisianachannel badly needs an emergency dental visit followed by a lawsuit.; 7/27/26, 9:44 AM
Smilin' Jack ayon kay ...: “ What if you have two people who decide to follow each other?”

You need more than two to make it work. Army ants do this when they’re on the move; each one follows the one in front of it. You can trick them into forming a circle by nudging the first one around to the end. Then they’ll just march around in a circle till they die. Or so I’ve heard; I’ve never tried it myself.; 7/27/26, 9:48 AM
Quaestor ayon kay ...: May she promenade through another person's decision to bust her square in her festering gob.; 7/27/26, 9:48 AM
Howard ayon kay ...: It's all fun and games until you follow some hipster hiking at night in grizzly bear country.; 7/27/26, 9:51 AM
Disparity of Cult ayon kay ...: Postmenopausal French woman, funky eyeglass frames ✓; 7/27/26, 9:53 AM
Howard ayon kay ...: It's so lovely to let us all know that your first thoughts are to hit a helpless, frail old woman in the face. Yet you would never think of criticizing Maori tattoos directly to a Pacific islander built like American football linebacker.

Stick to the self-flagellation over minor grammatical errors, it's much more manly; 7/27/26, 9:53 AM
Dust Bunny Queen ayon kay ...: SO...a sort of an energy vampire?; 7/27/26, 9:57 AM
Temujin ayon kay ...: I love the photographs. And I get it. I will sometimes get out early to walk (with my camera) around our town down here. And just walking the streets, take random photos of the city waking up, people moving about, or sitting on a park bench, or sipping coffee outside a cafe. People who don't see you don't care if you're taking their photo. No one has hit me yet.; 7/27/26, 10:15 AM
Kai Akker ayon kay ...: The grizzly was a gruesome story. It's amazing how risk-free so many Americans think the world is.; 7/27/26, 10:23 AM
Kai Akker ayon kay ...: "I've got my Mace Ma!"; 7/27/26, 10:24 AM
Kai Akker ayon kay ...: ---- Yet you would never think of criticizing Maori tattoos directly to a Pacific islander built like American football linebacker.

I disagree. Quaestor's diction would make his sentiments impenetrable to Maoris. So, he might think of it.; 7/27/26, 10:32 AM
Kai Akker ayon kay ...: Ah. Thought I was in a cafe post of some sort. Don't TOSE me Ann!; 7/27/26, 10:35 AM
Beaver7216 ayon kay ...: Sad seeing these comments. Errance is how I like to travel, without realizing it. Have seen enough Eiffel towers and fjords. Just seeing people go through life. Stalking, I guess.; 7/27/26, 11:40 AM
Rosalyn C. ayon kay ...: It’s the same principle as watching movies. You get caught up in other people’s dramas in a fictional world. That could be considered kind of creepy too, but we call it an art form. In her mode she’s watching silent films of real people in real space.; 7/27/26, 11:45 AM
Fred Drinkwater ayon kay ...: Daring rcommal does not break any rule, but taunts the ruler with a dance at the very edge of the abyss.; 7/27/26, 11:48 AM
Fred Drinkwater ayon kay ...: That's art.; 7/27/26, 11:50 AM
Fred Drinkwater ayon kay ...: Dirk Gently stated he often got out of being lost by following people who appeared to know where they were going.; 7/27/26, 11:53 AM
Interested Bystander ayon kay ...: Errance? New word for me. I'm a voracious reader and I love my Kindle because I can look up unfamiliar words so easily. "Errance" isn't a work I know. Oh okay. It's French. No wonder. I don't speak French. I just finished reading "The Count of Monte Cristo". I had to look up something on nearly every page. I guess that's how I learn.; 7/27/26, 12:03 PM
Lazarus ayon kay ...: "Following," an early film by ... Christopher Nolan ...; 7/27/26, 12:08 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...: It has a David Lynch ‘Blue Velvet’ vibe to it.; 7/27/26, 12:26 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...: ai “Follow that cab”: “If you are looking for a specific movie that used this exact line, or if you want to explore parodies of the trope, please let me know!”
The idea of following someone in the socials as a parody. Or following anybody at all in the socials is a parody.; 7/27/26, 12:32 PM
Not Illinois Resident ayon kay ...: Good thing she's a harmless looking little French white old lady, not a hulking recently-arrived migrant with a petite knfe.; 7/27/26, 12:57 PM
Quaestor ayon kay ...: Errance in English is wandering. A knight errant, a warrior who wanders looking for adventure or valiant deeds to perform, incorporates the French connotation, thanks to Middle English. Errance doesn't mean to follow someone. It just doesn't, and it takes either a simpleton or a dishonest person to insist otherwise.; 7/27/26, 1:38 PM
Rabel ayon kay ...: Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you; 7/27/26, 1:43 PM
FullMoon ayon kay ...: Friend used to pick a car and follow it around. It was a creepy hobby.
Prior to internet , he would advertise is local papers across the country "Good Jobs in Califonia" Requiredfive bucks and self addressed envelope. Then send back a few help wanted ads cut out of San Francisco Chronicle; 7/27/26, 2:27 PM
Lazarus ayon kay ...: As hobbies go, it probably is better than hiking alone at night through bear country ...; 7/27/26, 3:31 PM
john mosby ayon kay ...: Come on, she stole the idea from Phil Collins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9zj11gf9Qk&t=1s

CC, JSM; 7/27/26, 4:12 PM
Skeptical Voter ayon kay ...: The French might call her a flaneur--a sort of aimless wandering. OTOH I might call her a parasite.; 7/27/26, 4:21 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...: "As hobbies go, it probably is better than hiking alone at night through bear country ..."

Instagram: for example; 7/27/26, 5:59 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...: You know. My father used to do this errance type of thing. When we lived in Mass, early 80s, we thought we were going somewhere not too far and our father would be taking us to the Bronx NY to visit our grandparents. He seemed to be making up his mind as we went.; 7/27/26, 6:28 PM
Stephanie A. Richer ayon kay ...: I think this is intriguing and if you are the sort who does street photography, this would be a wonderful exercise.; 7/28/26, 5:26 AM
Biff ayon kay ...: Sounds like the setting for a spy movie. "French woman of a certain age inadvertently gets caught in a high-stakes countersurveillance operation. Hijinks ensue. Starring Liam Neeson and Isabelle Adjani."; 7/28/26, 3:06 PM

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