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So in case I’m not spending enough time on the front page of this HN, good to know there’s a nearly infinite depth to plumb. And now I’m reading Arnold Bennett
by zaroth 9y ago
So in case I’m not spending enough time on the front page of this HN, good to know there’s a nearly infinite depth to plumb.
And now I’m reading Arnold Bennett’s ‘How to Live on 24 Hours a Day’ originally published in 1908. Good to know tongue-in-cheek self-help books will never go out of style!
[1] - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2274/2274-h/2274-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2274/2274-h/2274-h.htm
- formalsystem 9y agoI actually enjoyed reading this today. One highlight was the below on "reading the news every morning" " The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude (for nowhere can one more perfectly immerse one's self in one's self than in a compartment full of silent, withdrawn, smoking males) is to me repugnant "