Posted by Caroline, the proverbial slacker on August 05, 1997 at 23:01:32:
In reply to Re: the Wealthy don't need occupations. posted by Cassia on August 05, 1997 at 19:20:08
] ]Yes, they did that but there was a growing feeling that one needed something to occupy one's time so that one did fall into disspation. It was always understood that one did not take up one's career for a living, rather as a wall through which idleness could not creep. ;-)
Sounds positively Victorian to me!
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