Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: 12 hours work

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 10:25  AM, Dahako [at] aol.com wrote:

> "It is not the prize that can make us happy: it is not even the 
> winning of the prize, though for the one short half-hour of triumph 
> that is pleasant enough.  The struggle, the long hot hour of the 
> honest fight, the grinding work - when the teeth are set, and the skin 
> moist with sweat and rough with dust, when all is doubtful and 
> sometimes desperate, when a man must trust to his own manhood knowing 
> that those around him trust it not at all, - that is the happy time of 
> life.  There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only 
> six hours in which to do it." (Anthony Trollope in Orley Farm)

Well, I'm afraid that I'm in the camp that says: There is no human 
bliss equal to six hours of work with only twelve hours to do it in! 
That is my goal in life!

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org

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