Ecco

Cheat on the test? You have no control over that—go ahead. Not getting along with your husband? Slip him some poison and say the universe made you do it. This is what caused such a stir when Newton presented his universal laws. I call this the Bleak View, but many scientists and determinists think this is the way things are. The rest of us just don’t believe it.

Listen, says ambition, nervously shifting her weight from

one boot to another—why don’t you get going?

For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees.

And to tell the truth I don’t want to let go of the wrists

of idleness, I don’t want to sell my life for money,

I don’t even want to come in out of the rain.

Listen, says ambition, nervously shifting her weight from

one boot to another—why don’t you get going?

For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees.

And to tell the truth I don’t want to let go of the wrists

of idleness, I don’t want to sell my life for money,

I don’t even want to come in out of the rain