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> <channel><title>The Idler &#187; Idle Idols</title> <atom:link href="http://idler.co.uk/category/idle-idols/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://idler.co.uk</link> <description>For those who live to loaf</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:14 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Idle Idols: Henry Miller</title><link>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-henry-miller/</link> <comments>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-henry-miller/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:44:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Idle Idols]]></category> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols-eric-cantona/</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; March 1995 Eric Cantona once said that for him football was a spontaneous art form. I wasn&#8217;t so sure at the time. (He was playing [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-eric-cantona/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Idle Idols: Paul Lafargue</title><link>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-paul-lafargue/</link> <comments>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-paul-lafargue/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:33:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Idle Idols]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols-paul-lafargue/</guid> <description><![CDATA[From Idler 7 December 1994 The French labour activist dreamed of a three hour day for everyone, was thrown in prison for subversion and in 1883 wrote a searing attack on the work ethic called The Right to be Lazy. If you think you work too hard now, spare a thought for the French factory [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-paul-lafargue/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Idle Idols: Bertrand Russell</title><link>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-bertrand-russell/</link> <comments>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-bertrand-russell/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:32:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Idle Idols]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols-bertrand-russell/</guid> <description><![CDATA[From Idler 3, January 1994 By Orlando May Vehemently opposed to the work ethic, Bertrand Russell was also probably the most prolific and hard working thinker in this century. In 1932 he wrote an essay, &#8220;In Praise of Idleness&#8221;, where he investigated the idle paradox &#038; argued for a four hour day. If you&#8217;ve ever [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-bertrand-russell/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Idle Idols: Epicurus</title><link>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-epicurus/</link> <comments>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-epicurus/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:27:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Idle Idols]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols-epicurus/</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 Do you remember how it felt to be a child? Do you remember running simply for the sheer joy of running, rather than stepping slowly down a flight of stairs [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-epicurus/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Idle Idols: Robert Louis Stevenson</title><link>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-robert-louis-stevenson/</link> <comments>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-robert-louis-stevenson/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:23:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Idle Idols]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols-robert-louis-stevenson/</guid> <description><![CDATA[From Idler 2, November 1993 By Robert Hanks The author of Treasure Island believed extreme busyness to be a symptom of deficient vitality. He expounded his idle views in a seminal essay, An Apology for Idlers, providing succour for all cool persons by the wayside. The Idler must be conscious that the world at large [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-robert-louis-stevenson/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Idle Idols: Samuel Johnson</title><link>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-samuel-johnson/</link> <comments>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-samuel-johnson/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:21:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Idle Idols]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols-samuel-johnson/</guid> <description><![CDATA[From Idler 1, August 1993 By Tom Hodgkinson To those unacquainted with the vicissitudes of Dr Johnson&#8217;s personality, the great sage may seem an unlikely choice for Idle Idol number one. Johnson did, after all, write an entire dictionary which, brilliant and often imaginative feat though it was, involved much drudgery and labour of the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-samuel-johnson/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Idle Idols: Jerome K. Jerome</title><link>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-jerome-k-jerome/</link> <comments>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-jerome-k-jerome/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:49:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Idle Idols]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols-jerome-k-jerome/</guid> <description><![CDATA[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. You never know who you might bump into in a park. In his [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-jerome-k-jerome/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Idle Idols: Lin Yutang</title><link>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang/</link> <comments>http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:22:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Idle Idols]]></category> <guid
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