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Where are the great 'thinkers' and 'creators' salons today?
For quite a few moons now I've been wondering where all the 'thinkers' and 'creators' salons are.
Wiki defines salon as:
'A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" ("aut delectare aut prodesse est"). '
But I'm expanding that definition to include those 'salons' that emerged in Parisian Cafe culture, between the first and second world wars for example, where the likes of Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald and many many other great notables across the cultural diaspora met.
Is the Cafe Les Deux Magots still one of 'the' spots?
If you could be a fly on the wall and observe contemporary critical (and playful) thinking amongst the foremost thinkers across any of the arts you can think of - where would you go?
And who would be these great (although maybe yet to receive the highest levels of acclammation) personages?
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