In Praise of Reason Taking a Holiday

Granting the good Toby Lewis a Spanish break over the Xmas the board acted in a way that should be a beacon to the Blured Way of slave labourers. Toby, always with that double-edged sword of reason never slipping from his hand, is reasonable enough to know that reason itself needs a break sometimes from itself. One cannot eat reason and one cannot cuddle reason in a bed of roses. Long live the deserved long holidays in search of the Spanish delights of both body and mind away from pure reason.

We are reminded here of Homer. His writings were always alive and well in a world where each and every hero needed to eat and drink and actually live a real life. Shame that so many novelists live only inside of their own abstract selves as they are fed by others. We are also reminded that the New Zealand example remains significant. All working folk deserve a paid holiday and sometimes long holidays unless they are to be slaves to the market and used as mere prostitutes satisfying those that pay.