Leisure is time off the books, off the job, off the clock. If
we save time, we commonly believe we
are saving it for our leisure. We know that leisure is really a state of mind,
but no dictionary can define it without reference to passing time. It is
unrestricted time, unemployed time, unoccupied time. Or is it? Unoccupied time
is vanishing. The leisure industries (an oxymoron maybe, but no contradiction)
fill time, as groundwater fills a sinkhole. The very variety of experience
attacks our leisure as it attempts to satiate us. We work for our amusement.
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