The Importance of Being Idle A Little Book of Lazy Inspiration

by Robins, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781853754388
• ISBN10: 1853754382
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group

Summary

"The time that a man may call his own," observed Charles Lamb, "that is his life." In an age of increasingly long and stressful working hours,The Importance of Being Idleis a call-to-arms for would-be loafers to turn their hands to absolutely nothing whatsoever. This compendium of guidance and wisdom from prominent loafers argues with stunning wit and impeccable logic that idling plays an important role in both the progress of civilization and in our daily well-being. Just the thing to bring harried executives to their senses or to help committed idlers while away the lazy hours.

Table of Contents

Introduction
A
Achievement
Action
Akrasia
Afternoon Tea Amateurs
Ambition
Ancient Greece
Armchairs
B
Bartelby the Scrivener
Beau Brummell
Beds Breakfast
Brooke, Sir Basil Stanlake
Buchanites Buddhism
Business
Busy Bee
Busy Idleness
C
Careerists
Chalmers, Thomas
Christianity Civilisation
Clothes
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Contemplation
Creativity
Crime
Curiosity
D
Death
Dickens, Charles
Doing Nothing
E
Eichendorff, Joseph Von
Employment
Evolution: the development of the human brain
Excuses
F
Ford, Henry
Freedom
G
Getting out of Bed
Greek Philosophy Goring, Lord
H
Happiness
Hard Work
Health
Heaven Herodotus
History
Holidays
Housework Hypochondria
I
Identity
Idleness
Idlers
Imagination Indolence
Industry
Intellectuals
Inventiveness
J
Jerome K. Jerome
Johnson, Samuel
K
Kenko Yoshida
L
Lafargue, Paul
Laziness
Leisure
Letters
Life Lin Yutang
Literature
Loafing
Lotus-Eaters Love
Lying In Bed
M
Mankind
Marriage
Melancholy
Monasticism Money
More, Sir Thomas
N
Nobility
O
Oblomov
Obligations
P
Paradise
Parliament
Patriotism
Plans
Play Philosophy
Poetry
Protestant Work Ethic
Q
Quin, Gilbert
R
Relaxation
Retirement
Revolution
Rights Rip Van Winkle
Rochester, Lord
Routine Russell, Bertrand
S
Saki
Science
Seneca
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
Sex
Shangri-La
Skelton, John
Sleep
Sloth
Sluggards
Social Trends Socialism
Somnus
Stevenson, Robert Louis Stress
Success
Sunbathing Suppression of Idleness
T
Technology
Time
Tobacco
Tramps
Truancy Twain, Mark
V
Veblen, Thorstein
W
Weariness
Whitman, Walt
Wilde, Oscar Wisdom
Work
Workaholics
The World
Y
Youth
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