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- The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give…
- The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of…
- Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being…
- As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would…
- By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the U.K. has…
- Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for.…
- It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought…
- Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can…
- Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being…
- If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it,…
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