It is an ignominious confession, but I am a confirmed saunterer… I love city squares. The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen, and actors at 11 o’clock in the morning. These are always to be found by the park… It is entrancing to walk in such places and catalogue all that may be seen. I jot down on scraps of paper a list of all the shops on a side street; the names of tradesmen that amuse me; the absurd repartees of gutter children. Why? It amuses me and that is sufficient excuse. From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the most of my chance… by the time a man is thirty he should be able to see what life has to offer, and take what dishes on the menu agree with him best… and if he finds his pleasure on a park bench in ragged trousers let him lounge them, with good heart. I welcome him to the goodly fellowship of saunterers, an acolyte of the excellent church of the agorolaters!