Coffee Time
"Coffee is for winners, go-getters, tea-ignorers, lunch-cancellers, early-risers, guilt-ridden strivers, money obsessives and spiritually empty lunatics. It is an enervating force. We should resist it and embrace tea, the ancient drink of poets, philosophers and meditators."
— Tom Hodgkinson, How to be Idle
Maybe so. Nothing's perfect.
But I wouldn't 'embrace' either one. That's a good way to get your unit parboiled. Which is worse, Hodgkinson, a lapful of scalding liquid, or using the word 'drink' twice in one sentence?
— Tom Hodgkinson, How to be Idle
Maybe so. Nothing's perfect.
But I wouldn't 'embrace' either one. That's a good way to get your unit parboiled. Which is worse, Hodgkinson, a lapful of scalding liquid, or using the word 'drink' twice in one sentence?
posted by Project WANNABE at 5:56 AM
8 Comments:
This Hodgkinson fella sure sounds like one opinionated sod. I wouldn't trust him to be an expert on idlness NOR tea.
Yeah!
I like tea but his argument is boring.
Wanna hear the sad thing? That was about the liveliest quote I've seen in the book.
Skip the coffee and the tea. I'm going for the cocaine in the can--that's what the REAL go-getters drink. Or absinthe, if you're a wastrel poet.
So you're familiar with the guy? In the book, he talks about starting an absinthe-importing company.
Actually, no, I was being a smartass, sorry. Is he talking real absinthe or that Bohemian stuff without the wormwood? Cuz I'd buy the real stuff, and make like Tolouse-Latrec.
Oh, lol. But you were right on the money about him. He doesn't really say whether it's the real stuff, which makes me suspect it had about as much of it as coca cola has of coca.
Please never apologize for being a smartass here! If there's one community I'm trying to support it's the smartasses.
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