Sleep, a Good Use of Time

Every day is packed with everydayness, and the entire notion of Time is asymmetrical.

Flaubert, the great master:“I spent all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in.”

Sleep has a certain weightlessness. Once you’re really asleep somehow you know you’re right there with it . And still you may be able to sneak out for a little walk at night, having packed a small wicker picnic basket with water, a fresh Honeycrisp apple, and your loved one’s homemade granola.

Everyone should have the right to their sleep! The common ordinary citizen should naturally be granted the sovereign privilege of waking with the thought (and the feeling) that he or she is not in some kind of armed combative showdown with the country of their birth.

Meyer Lemon on throne of glass, March 30, 2026. Photo by author.