Monday, February 24, 2025

How was your weekend?

If their work is satisfying
people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense.
No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax,
or how Bach spent his weekends.

        J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes

 

 

 

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