Tuesday 25 May 2010
"Query: How contrive not to waste ones time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while" (Camus 2004[1947]: 26)
"Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting room; by remaining on one's balcony all a Sunday afternoon; by listening to a lecture in a language one doesn't know; by travelling by the longest and least convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by queueing at the box-office of theatres and then not booking a seat. And so forth" (Camus 2004[1947]: 26)
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By attending the conference in a foreign land while all your friends have gathered back home for a little bit of first-maying: drinkin’ home brew – preferably for breakfast; BBQ-ing a wide variety of heavily marinated meats; and singing in unison: “Ooooooooooooooo” or “Tu-di-du-ti-tu-di-du”…
ReplyDeleteBy attending the most boring board meeting ever where not one of the subject matters that are on agenda for the day interest you a bit – and then to enter your name for yet another meeting to be held in a couple of weeks.
ReplyDeleteBy standing humiliated at the reception of the booking agency waiting for the man who several weeks ago had promissed to listen to your music and to book you up for a gig and who is now more than one hour late because of some other, more important, meeting just to hear, at his final and long awaited arrival that he and his agency don't work with non-established bands.
ReplyDeleteBy running a marathon in high heels.
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