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035			_a(OCoLC)1030580852
092			_aHampl, P. _bH229
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aHampl, Patricia, _d1946- _eauthor. _949334
245	1	4	_aThe art of the wasted day / _cPatricia Hampl.
264		1	_aNew York, New York : _bViking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a271 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aTimelessness -- To go -- To stay.
520			_aIn an effort to discover the value of daydreaming and leisure, the author sets out on a journey that will take her to the homes of people who famously wasted time daydreaming, but were better for it, including Gregor Mendel.
520			_a"The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form. She begins with two celebrated eighteenth-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of "retirement" in rural Wales. Her search then leads to Moravia to consider the monk-geneticist, Gregor Mendel, and finally to Bordeaux for Michel Montaigne--the hero of this book--who retreated from court life to sit in his chateau tower and write about whatever passed through his mind, thus inventing the personal essay. Hampl's own life winds through these pilgrimages, from childhood days lazing under a neighbor's beechnut tree, to a fascination with monastic life, and then to love--and the loss of that love which forms this book's silver thread of inquiry. Finally, a remembered journey down the Mississippi near home in an old cabin cruiser with her husband turns out, after all her international quests, to be the great adventure of her life. The real job of being human, Hampl finds, is getting lost in thought, something only leisure can provide. The Art of the Wasted Day is a compelling celebration of the purpose and appeal of letting go"--Book jacket.
600	1	0	_aHampl, Patricia, _d1946- _xTravel. _9354923
650		0	_aPoets, American _y20th century _vBiography. _939108
650		0	_aRelaxation _vAnecdotes. _9354924
650		0	_aLeisure _vAnecdotes. _9354925
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		7	_aTravel writing. _2lcgft _96889
655		7	_aAnecdotes. _2lcgft _94847
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