What do you do when you're not asleep and not eating? You're most likely waiting - to finish work, to get home, to finish your duties. This book aims to describe how many people experience waiting and how important this is, in popular and highbrow culture and in real life and how we cope with it.
What do you do when you're not asleep and not eating? You're most likely waiting - to finish work, to get home, to finish your duties. This book aims to describe how many people experience waiting and how important this is, in popular and highbrow culture and in real life and how we cope with it.
Peter Toohey is Professor of Classics at the University of Calgary, whose previous books include Boredom and Jealousy.
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* Illustrations * Prologue * Chapter 1: "Everyone is just Waiting": Three versions of the experience of waiting * Chapter 2: Alan Rabinowitz Encounters A Jaguar. Are some brains better at waiting than others? * Chapter 3: Hall Porter Senf's Wife Is in Labor. Childbirth, friendship, marriage, and waiting. * Chapter 4: Happiness - is it just a matter of waiting to meet your double? A chapter on the life and the lore of waiting and of fulfillment * Chapter 5: Miles Davis Breaks for A Smoke: The power and the pleasure in pausing * Chapter 6: Dithering: A chapter on the strategic advantages of indecisive waiting. * Chapter 7: Heaven Can Wait: that empty chair, waiting, and the beyond. * Chapter 8: "The Littler Waiting Room." Can you make the best of dread - and of waiting for approaching death? * Epilogue * Acknowledgements * Notes
* Illustrations * Prologue * Chapter 1: "Everyone is just Waiting": Three versions of the experience of waiting * Chapter 2: Alan Rabinowitz Encounters A Jaguar. Are some brains better at waiting than others? * Chapter 3: Hall Porter Senf's Wife Is in Labor. Childbirth, friendship, marriage, and waiting. * Chapter 4: Happiness - is it just a matter of waiting to meet your double? A chapter on the life and the lore of waiting and of fulfillment * Chapter 5: Miles Davis Breaks for A Smoke: The power and the pleasure in pausing * Chapter 6: Dithering: A chapter on the strategic advantages of indecisive waiting. * Chapter 7: Heaven Can Wait: that empty chair, waiting, and the beyond. * Chapter 8: "The Littler Waiting Room." Can you make the best of dread - and of waiting for approaching death? * Epilogue * Acknowledgements * Notes
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