People
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
— Ogden Nash
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Wanting to escape work sounds simple, but Nash points out the catch. To afford a life without labour, you first have to labour. It's a neat little paradox, joking that laziness ends up demanding plenty of effort.
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