The Pleasure of Foolishness | May 5, 2014
Being the fool is not the same as
acting the fool: you can’t decide to be playful, or foolish, for an hour
a day, as if it were yet another task to add to your campaign of
self-improvement. It’s rather the result of a relaxation of the rules
and goals that you normally run your life by. The pleasure of
foolishness lies in large part in the absence of self-consciousness; in
the self-forgetting that comes in a moment of abandon.
—Roger Housden, “A Fool’s Bargain”
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