Idle Idols: Henry Miller

From Idler 19, 1997
Joshua Glenn on the writer who freed himself from the cocksucking corporation and learned how to live.

 

Idle Idols: Eric Cantona

Eric Cantona, says ROBERT NEWMAN, has always taken on the system and won. Which is what makes him a great idol for our times.
From Idler issue 8, February – March 1995

 

Idle Idols: Paul Lafargue

From Idler 7 December 1994

 

Idle Idols: Bertrand Russell

From Idler 3, January 1994
By Orlando May

 

Idle Idols: Epicurus

A FERTILE MIND
Most people think of Epicurus as the philosopher of self-indulgence.
But his ideas for living were pragmatic and subversive.
By STEPHEN ARMSTRONG

 

Idle Idols: Robert Louis Stevenson

From Idler 2, November 1993
By Robert Hanks

 

Idle Idols: Samuel Johnson

From Idler 1, August 1993
By Tom Hodgkinson

 

Idle Idols: Jerome K. Jerome

From Idler 5, July 1994
Editor of our Victorian namesake, Jerome K. Jerome is best known for Three Men in a Boat. He worked hard at his idleness, but did he ever fulfill his creative potential? Dan Glaister profiles a seminal idler.

 

Idle Idols: Lin Yutang

From Idler 13, January – February 1996
By Matt Ffytche
Lin Yutang was a Chinese philosopher of the early 20th century who became an apostle of loafing. Matt Ffytche has managed to unearth his rare writings for the comfort of you, the indolent reader.

 

Idle Idols: Alfred Jarry

From Idler 17, November 1996
Mark Sanders uncovers the truth behnd the mask of the creator of Ubu Roi, one Alfred Jarry .

 

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