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Read & copy the quotation
“To accumulate work has almost become a passion with me: my study is so full of it now, that there is hardly an inch of room for any more.”
- Date
- 1889
- Local voice
- Fictional narrator · J. (first-person narrator)
Meaning of “To accumulate work has almost become a passion…”
Unfinished work is treated like a prized collection, extending the joke by converting avoidance into careful accumulation rather than admitting that tasks have simply not been completed.
Where does it come from?
Three Men in a Boat, Chapter XV; this follows the narrator’s claim that work fascinates him because he can look at it for hours.
Why the local voice matters
Three Men in a Boat, Chapter XV; this follows the narrator’s claim that work fascinates him because he can look at it for hours.
