Wednesday, 15 December 2010

from a letter by D.H. Lawrence

"If I had the smallest income,
I would be delighted to loaf forever."

1 comment:

  1. In this sentiment he echoes Walt Whitman, who greatly extolled 'loafing'
    - a behaviour loathed and feared as much by the Puritan founders of the United States as by the rapacious consumer-capitalists of today.

    ReplyDelete