Over Worked

Not me, well, not really, except that in the last three years particularly, as the wheels came off the health, almost any work was too much.

At any rate, I’m one of the lilies of the field, in that my work is not essential to continued life or civilization. Maybe. I’m not as sure of it as I once was.

When I was young and raised in a socialist ethos, I was told the important thing was to “be good for something” i.e. to do something useful for society. It was one of the things that kept me from...