One of our big books this fall looks like it will be Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell's Idler's Glossary. Think of it as a Devil's dictionary for the idling classes, a volume that is destined to open wounds with Calvinists, Timekeepers, clock-watchers, workaholics, uptightniks and punctiliocrats everywhere. It includes an essay by Mark Kingwell -- Idling Toward Heaven: The Last Defence you will Ever Need -- and Glenn's glossary proper, which gathers and closely examines (and in some cases coins) hundreds of idler-specific terms and phrases. Illustrated by Seth, if you can't tell from this first cover mock up. I love the Bertie Wooster-ish feel of it. Wodehouse would have approved, I think.
Josh has just put his glossary in Wordle, a web-based tool that gives you acloud of key words and phrases: that can be found here:
wordle.net/gallery/03059/idler_glossary
This will be the perfect volume for all you idlers, loafers, layabouts, shit-heels, losers, dawdlers, amblers, indolents, flaneurs, epicureans, dodgers, spongers and cadgers: the bulk, I expect, of Thirsty readers.
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I do have to criticize the idling technique of the chap on the front cover. Not only is he still wearing his shoes, but that chair is not at all suitable for proper long-distance idling. Without a proper headrest, he'd be cramping in no time. I find best cialis offers.
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