Doing Bad All By Yourself: How to Live in Nothingness and Uselessness
Odell conceptualizes “nothingness” from different perspectives, including its antithesis to “busyness” in present times. She defines busyness as what Robert Louis Stevenson called a “symptom of deficient vitality” and “a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.” (qtd. on pdf, p. 8)….