From the Notebooks
Common, overlapping, theme: "The Importance of Doing Nothing" (Forbes), provides empirical evidence for the anecdotal evidence Albert Jay Nock laid out in "Snoring as a Fine Art," which brushed up against the philosophy underlying Joseph Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture. And all of it, at one level or another, reminds of this summarizing honorific by Chesterton: "the most precious, the most-consoling, the most pure and holy, the noble habit of doing nothing at all."
