When a Book Kicks You Up Your Backside

cover of the book, Babel. A greyscale image with lots of medieval line art in the back depicting old England, with the word Babel in a decorative fond running down the middle

Here I was, trying to laze away my day by getting lost in a book, when the book kicks my behind and tells me to go work 😂

‘The Germans have this lovely word, Sitzfleisch,’ Professor Playfair said pleasantly when Ramy protested that they had over forty hours of reading a week.
‘Translated literally, it means “sitting meat”.
Which all goes to say, sometimes you need simply to sit on your bottom and get things done.

— R.F. Kuang, Babel

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