an activity that someone does regularly for enjoyment rather than work; a hobby:
"his favourite pastime was shooting and golf"
synonyms:
hobby, leisure activity/pursuit, sport, game, recreation, amusement, avocation, diversion, divertissement, distraction, relaxation, pleasure , entertainment, fun, sideline, enthusiasm, interest, passion, fad, craze, mania, obsession.
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I like to dip into Lydia Davis now and then. A small, brief, encounter. Google images has a picture for every taste. "We have a wide selection of images, Sir, for the discerning voyeur." Google, you must remember, is part of the entertainment industry.
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When the world ends there will only be leisure. Will play lose its interest if everything is superficial?
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Today you saw an old man-though your definition of "old" is rapidly changing-walking sprightly despite his age and rickety body. He is a cleaner of some sorts and has a fixed smile, immaculately well-set hair (as if plastered on). And there are specks of grey on his thick, old-style moustache, that gives him a dignity that is unmatched in the whole university. Must one suffer to have dignity, today? The entirety of this man's life-story is contained in that moustache. The rapidly changing colour of it the crux of his life: from deep and strong brown to a lighter, mousy colour, straw and sand, then the onset of inevitable grey. This one single gesture seems to frame the rest of his face.
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Saturday morning is full of cartoons. They are thought up by grown-ups for grown-ups and therefore lack all charm, all innocence and all humour. Mostly it is people being zapped or turning into machines.
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Peter Brown and the Romans.
Free sex on the back of slavery.
The jolly free-for-all, which we like to imagine as forming a timeless human bond between us and the ancients, was based upon the existence of a vast and cruel “zone of free access” provided by the enslaved bodies of boys and girls. Slavery, “an inherently degrading institution,” was “absolutely fundamental to the social and moral order of Roman life.”'
Freedom (from the body, from society)...the isolated will vs an embodied sense of the self, connected with other bodies and, ultimately, to the cosmos. There is the darkness associated with the structure of dominance that was 'the world' , but there was another type that would replace it: that of the self battling against an ever darkening world.
The chain of being: freedom or unfreedom? Do chains, dependencies, bind or connect
The jolly free-for-all, which we like to imagine as forming a timeless human bond between us and the ancients, was based upon the existence of a vast and cruel “zone of free access” provided by the enslaved bodies of boys and girls. Slavery, “an inherently degrading institution,” was “absolutely fundamental to the social and moral order of Roman life.”'
Freedom (from the body, from society)...the isolated will vs an embodied sense of the self, connected with other bodies and, ultimately, to the cosmos. There is the darkness associated with the structure of dominance that was 'the world' , but there was another type that would replace it: that of the self battling against an ever darkening world.
The chain of being: freedom or unfreedom? Do chains, dependencies, bind or connect
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