TPPM (9): The Virtue of Idleness

[Tim Strzechowski]

This was originally posted by Otto back on August 7th:

"From the Bible on, moralists and nags have promoted the benefits of hard work and early rising. They are mistaken, argues Tom Hodgkinson. For breathing space to create and time to reflect, indolence is essential. He offers a guide to easy living, pleasurable illness, and effortless sex

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The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together. I have a dream. It is called love, anarchy, freedom. It is called being idle."

© Tom Hodgkinson, 2004.
Saturday August 7, 2004, The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1276787,00.html


The Deadly Sins/Sloth; Nearer, My Couch, to Thee
By Thomas Pynchon, June 6, 1993
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-sloth.html

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