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> Can you please invite me to your Western society that celebrates idleness? You don't need an invitation to visit Western Europe, but I'd wait a few months.
by danellis 6y ago
> Can you please invite me to your Western society that celebrates idleness?
You don't need an invitation to visit Western Europe, but I'd wait a few months.
- 082349872349872 6y agoSorry if we didn't answer your call in August, we were on vacation. We're working again now, though. Just don't call during lunch. The kinds of greeks and romans who wrote stuff down that people kept were into σχολή and otium, respectively. a sixteenth century telling of an anecdote from about a millennium earlier: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k70135b/f1013.image.r=essais%20essais https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k70135b/f1013.image.r=... > "Eſope vit ſon maiſtre qui piſſoit en ſe promenant, quoy donq, fit-il, nous faudra-il chier en courant."
- ben_w 6y agoCould you please translate that? I can make up for my poor standard of modern French with Google Translate, but it doesn’t have an option for 16th century French.
- madaxe_again 6y agoAesop saw his master pissing while walking around, will we therefore, he said, have to shit while running?
- ben_w 6y agoThank you :)