Jerome K. Jerome - Ociosas Reflexões de um Ocioso

"Idle Reflections of an Idle Man" (1886) offers us a collection of indolent chronicles by one of the greatest humorists in English literature and author of the famous book Three Men in a Boat. At 27, Jerome K. Jerome published, and dedicated to his eternal companion of leisure hours—his pipe—these fourteen texts for hardened procrastinators, which dismantle with disarming simplicity the paradoxes of daily life and conventions built by habit.

And it is through the eyes of this inveterate idler, as he "smokes the hookah of satisfaction and savors the sweet lotus leaves of indolence," that we contemplate the great vices and microscopic virtues of the "agitated crowd that stumbles along the broad road of life." In ironic digressions and flashes of irreverence, oscillating between laughter and reflection, this delightful array of themes encompasses laziness, vanity (that "true driving force of humanity"), neurosis, the state of the weather, and babies (a subject in which the writer claims to be a master, mainly because he "was once one of them").