“If the universe wanted us to be productive, it wouldn’t have invented cushions.”
— Professor Gerald Snoozlethorpe
Who was Professor Gerald Snoozlethorpe?
A little-known 19th-century metaphysicist and nap enthusiast, Gerald Snoozlethorpe held the world’s only dual professorship in Divinity and Reclining Furniture. Born in Slumberton-on-Avon in 1823, he famously attempted to prove that the cosmos expands every time someone sighs contentedly into a duvet.
Snoozlethorpe’s most influential work, “On the Divinely Appointed Importance of Not Doing Much,” was published entirely in footnotes and lunch breaks. He claimed that idleness was not laziness but “profound spiritual synchronisation with the universe’s least bothered particles.”
His legacy lives on in the sacred arts of loafing, pottering, and being horizontal with intent.
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