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A Gentleman’s Guide To Navigating The Inconveniences Of An Enforced Confinement
Although it would no doubt be utterly charming to be gripped perpetually by fear and consequently to enjoy the many benefits that result from the total cessation of activity within my prefrontal cortex, the curmudgeon that lurks within my breast will not admit of this delightful state.
Thus unable to partake in the hysteria that’s been so ably induced by our beloved sensationalist mass media and yet subject to the same constraints as everyone else that have been so helpfully imposed by clueless politicians desperate to look as though they can be of benefit, I have perforce been required to formulate an approach that enables me to precess gently through each day in such a manner as to stave off boredom and ennui.
As there may be some few others who find themselves in a similar situation, I have therefore elected, gentle reader, to elucidate some of the mechanisms whereby I occupy myself in a manner both enjoyable and conducive to the furthering of the faculty of reason.
I accept without reservation that in these days of mindlessness and collective agitation the very notion of reason itself may seem not only risible but socially irresponsible; yet, alas, unable to immerse myself in the empty noise of both mass and social media, I have no alternative. Thus I…
