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A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 93 excerpt)

Published: March 29, 2023, 5:27 p.m.

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Story 93 from \'A Lifetime Doing Nothing\' by Ian McCrorie
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According to Thoreau, \\u201cThe mass of men lead lives of quiet\\n desperation.\\u201d I think when people read this, they focus on the\\n word \\u201cquiet\\u201d as the problematic one in the sentence. Echoing\\n Pascal, quiet isn\'t the problem, it is the inability to accept the\\n quiet that leads to the desperation. We don\'t need to change\\n our environs as much as change ourselves, because as Ana\\xefs\\n Nin wrote, \\u201cWe see things not as they are, but as we are.\\u201d...\\n

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narrated by Ian McCrorie
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\\n 3 minutes 10 seconds\\n

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