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Chapter One: 8am, Waking Up is Hard to Do
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"I wonder if that hard-working American rationalist and agent of industry Benjamin Franklin knew how much misery he would cause in the world when, back in 1757, high on puritanical zeal, he popularized and promoted the trite and patently true aphorism 'early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise'?
"...the alarm clock. Heavens! What evil genius brought together those two enemies of the idle- clocks and alarms- into one unit? [...] The alarm clock is the first stage in the ungodly transformation that we force ourselves to endure in the morning, from blissed-out, carefree dreamer to anxiety-ridden toiler, weighted by responsibility. What is truly amazing is that we buy alarm clocks voluntarily."
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"I wonder if that hard-working American rationalist and agent of industry Benjamin Franklin knew how much misery he would cause in the world when, back in 1757, high on puritanical zeal, he popularized and promoted the trite and patently true aphorism 'early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise'?
"...the alarm clock. Heavens! What evil genius brought together those two enemies of the idle- clocks and alarms- into one unit? [...] The alarm clock is the first stage in the ungodly transformation that we force ourselves to endure in the morning, from blissed-out, carefree dreamer to anxiety-ridden toiler, weighted by responsibility. What is truly amazing is that we buy alarm clocks voluntarily."
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Date: Nov. 8th, 2004 03:17 pm (UTC)From: