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How to Be Idle.


How To Be Idle

Tom Hodgkinson Tom Hodgkinson is a British writer and the editor of The Idler. He was educated at Westminster School. He has contributed to articles to The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian and The Sunday Times as well as being the author of The Idler  

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Oscar Wilde devotee Tom Hodgkinson launched a quarterly magazine in 1993 which was devoted to doing nothing. How can you write about nothing? Surprisingly there's a fine art to daydreaming, laziness Laziness
See also Carelessness.

Lechery (See LUST.)

Bailey Junior

nonchalant, inefficient boardinghouse page. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit]

Bailey, Beetle

goldbricking army private.
, and the lack of work--and How To Be Idle combines anecdotes and literary criticism with history and a how-to commentary which defies easy categorization.
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