Today we’re gonna finish up chapter four and we start off this sixteen page journey with Levison commenting on how William quit. As if he’s surprised that yelling, lecturing and generally treating poorly someone who doesn’t want to be there anyways would result in anything much less. The ideal thing would have been for Levison to…
Hey everyone! Glad to have you (hopefully) back with us. We have a busy week ahead of us and it’ll mostly focus on A Working Stiff’s Manifesto and seeing if we can finish it before the end of October. I’ve added a Flattr button to the sidebar as well as under every post (including this one)…
Levison is pretty well established at the fish processing job last we saw. He’s de facto the head of the crew because some of his roommates from earlier left and also probably due to the amount of time he’s been there. We can only hope that this doesn’t go to his head too much. Even the…
Drug deals, welders going insane and Levison almost leaving Tony before they even going to the pub? Sounds like it’s time for the next part of chapter four! Levison begins telling us about the sort of job Tony does. It’s a one-year contract and he’s making more money than God in Alaska because of the…
Nick’s Notes: Strap yourself in, folks! This chapter is the biggest chapter in the entire book at 60 pages and as such I’m going to try to split it up as event-based or as dramatically as I can…or every fourteen pages. Whatever works, really. So expect this part of the chapter reviews to be at least four parts. When…
Thanks to Ryan Calhoun for linking this about a week or two back and unintentionally helping me have another Lazy Post while I work on other projects!
Just a small post today saying that I found, through that Wikipedia article on Otium I recently linked, this interesting paper on how Shakespeare dealt with the theme of leisure and idleness. At only 14 pages it shouldn’t take too much effort to get through and it’s fairly well written and interesting. Especially if you’re interested in Aristotle,…
I didn’t know terribly much about this word or its history and even reading most or all of this Wikipedia entry I’m not sure how much I’m closer to getting much that is useful out of it. But it’s still pretty interesting how a words etymology and general meaning can shift with cultures and time. Here’s a few…
Levison has now gone from working in a restaurant to working on the road with a friend of his named Jim. Jim is a truck driver who goes all around the US moving furniture for other companies and needs Levison’s help because the people they usually get aren’t dependable. Five-hundred a week is enough to…
Nick’s Notes: And we’re back! We’ll be taking a look at chapter three in all (or part, depending on how lazy I am!) its glory! Levison starts the chapter off by summing up restaurants in a fairly intuitively convincing way. Mind you, I’ve never worked in a restaurant but this all sounds plausible to me:…