In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity and Other Indulgences
The Washington Post calls Barbara’s Holland’s book “pleasingly subversive” while Marty - a lifelong devotee of the nap - says Holland nails it when she writes, “Americans are afraid of naps.”
“Large numbers of us are, for one reason or another, home-bound, but do we indulge in the restorative nap? Mostly not. Oozing virtue and busyness, we flog ourselves on till evening,” Holland writes.
Milton wrote “Paradise Lost” in bed and Winston Churchill, a prodigious writer, produced some of his most important works from his bed, “brandy bottle at the ready.
“No doubt when inspiration flagged and his thoughts refused to marshall, (Churchill) took a nip and a nap. Now there was a man who knew a thing or two about a good day’s work,” Holland writes of the great prime minister.
“Endangered Pleasures” is the perfect book for the night stand in your guest room or the person going on vacation. “It shamelessly advocates all the pleasures that have fallen into low repute since modern Puritanism cast its pall over the country,” Russell Baker said in The New York Times.
