Inertia II

"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
Foreword to "The Beach Book" by Gloria Steinem (1963);
reprinted in Galbraith's "A View From The Stands" (1986)