“Pneumococci are great levelers of vanity and ambition.” — Joseph Stanley Pennell, The History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters
True egalitarians
February 22nd, 2012 · 6 Comments
Tags: American Civil War · Lit & Crit
“Pneumococci are great levelers of vanity and ambition.” — Joseph Stanley Pennell, The History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters
Tags: American Civil War · Lit & Crit
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1 Averil Dean // Feb 22, 2012 at 9:21 am
Bill Maher said something similar on his show last week. In talking about Whitney Houston’s death, he mentioned that for all the good things fame and prestige can bring a person, the one luxury money cannot buy is sleep.
Maybe it is the nighttime, when we lie in bed with gritty eyes and twitching feet, that makes us all, literally, level.
2 Tetman Callis // Feb 22, 2012 at 10:08 am
Sleep is not a luxury, last I checked. If it were, I would do without.
3 Averil Dean // Feb 22, 2012 at 10:34 am
True, but it feels pretty fucking luxurious if you get it when you’ve been doing without.
4 Tetman Callis // Feb 22, 2012 at 10:50 am
It sure does. I sleep so poorly my doc wanted to enroll me in a sleep study, but I couldn’t afford it. If I get four hours of solid sleep and another two or three hours of lighter sleep in a night, I have slept very well.
5 Averil Dean // Feb 22, 2012 at 11:08 am
That’s rough. Does the weed not help?
6 Tetman Callis // Feb 22, 2012 at 12:47 pm
It apparently provides the most natural induced sleep; however, I do not smoke much anymore–once a week, maybe more for special occasions, such as these last few days, which were Carnival. Today, being Ash Wednesday, marks the beginning of smoking abstention for me until April.
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