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How to Be Idle
How to Be Idle
Author: Tom Hodgkinson
How to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's entertaining guide to reclaiming your right to be idle. As Oscar Wilde said, "Doing nothing is hard work." The Protestant work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them. But here, at last, is a book that can help. H...  more »is an antidote to the work-obsessed culture which puts so many obstacles between ourselves and our dreams. Hodgkinson presents us with a laid-back argument for a new contract between routine and chaos, an argument for experiencing life to the full and living in the moment.

Ranging across a host of issues that may affect the modern idler -- sleep, the world of work, pleasure and hedonism, relationships, bohemian living, revolution -- he draws on the writings of such well-known apologists for idleness as Dr Johnson, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson and Nietzsche. His message is clear: take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle. 
ISBN-13: 9780141015064
ISBN-10: 0141015063
Publication Date: 6/30/2005
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Gardners Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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