Shauna

“On Ove’s side of the track it’s empty but for three overdimensioned municipal employees in their midthirties in workmen’s trousers and hard hats, standing in a ring and staring down into a hole. Around them is a carelessly erected loop of cordon tape. One of them has a mug of coffee from 7-Eleven; another is eating a banana; the third is trying to poke his cell phone without removing his gloves. It’s not going so well. And the hole stays where it is. And still we’re surprised when the whole world comes crashing down in a financial crisis, Ove thinks. When people do little more than standing around eating bananas and looking into holes in the ground all day.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“The development of productive technologies offered western society a choice: to have more leisure time, or to increase the production and consumption of consumer goods. Capitalism took us down the latter path, and the Utopian dream of ease and leisure for all was buried under a mountain of commodities. [ch.three]”
― David Frayne, The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

“providing very high levels of service coupled with a very low, albeit nonzero, level of murder.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model

“Take a moment to catch your breath and revel in your rhetorical mastery and achievement.”
― Christopher Moore, Fool