Sir, – Further to Colm Keena's An Irishman's Diary ("Teen idol", April 28th), and the oblique reference to Robert Louis Stevenson's essay An Apology for Idlers, Stevenson doesn't endorse "idleness" per se.
I can still drag up a quote 50-plus years on from my schooldays: “Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but doing something not recognised by the dogmatic formulas of the ruling classes.”
A different concept entirely. – Yours, etc,
MICK CARRICK,
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Doonbeg,
Co Clare.