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Idleness
Jenny Diski’s idyllness
‘In idleness is the salvaging of the inner life’
‘Boredom is the highest state of creativity’
Poem:
‘Nothing on Adorno’ by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
Image gallery:
Dance of Death
Poems:
‘Man and the Echo’, ‘The Circus Animal’s Desertion’ and ‘Politics’ by W.B. Yeats
Podcast:
Lucy Lawless and Jaime Murray Reading Jean-Paul Sartre’s ‘No Exit’
Book excerpt:
‘The Octopus’ by Frank Norris
Classic short story:
‘Monday or Tuesday’ by Virginia Woolf
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