They assured people that everyone was, unencumbered by any factual knowledge, able to make out the profession, the character, the background, and the life-style of passers-by. In these writings, this ability appears as a gift which a good fairy bestows upon an inhabitant of a big city at birth.

~   Walter Benjamin, from The Flaneur
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