"we have all got out of the habit of living, we are
all in a greater or less degree crippled. we are so
unused to living that we often feel something like
loathing for `real life' and cannot bear to be reminded
of it. we have really gone so far as to think of `real
life' as toil, almost as servitude, and we are all
agreed, for our part, that it is better in books. "

-- fyodor dostoevsky