The Prolonged Tea-Time of the Soul

"The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul is that state which one's soul enters at about 3 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon, when one has had all the baths that one can usefully have that day and no matter how long one stares at an article in the paper one will never actually read it, nor use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes." - Douglas Adams (paraphrased)

It strikes me that the days between Christmas and New Years Eve are a sort of extended tea-time of the soul. Perhaps the prolonged, dark teatime of the soul? Sedgwick wrote something about the same thing, only he called the period in question "The Dead Days".

Now I shall sip my sherry and try to write. (Very Cruella of me, no?)

The Prolonged Tea-Time of the Soul

"The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul is that state which one's soul enters at about 3 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon, when one has had all the baths that one can usefully have that day and no matter how long one stares at an article in the paper one will never actually read it, nor use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes." - Douglas Adams (paraphrased)

It strikes me that the days between Christmas and New Years Eve are a sort of extended tea-time of the soul. Perhaps the prolonged, dark teatime of the soul? Sedgwick wrote something about the same thing, only he called the period in question "The Dead Days".

Now I shall sip my sherry and try to write. (Very Cruella of me, no?)