TOURISTS
“So, what do you do? What’s your profession?”
“Actually, doctor, I don’t work at all. I write. I just sit and write…”
“You sit and write? Yes, well, you see, when you don’t work, and just sit around and write, it doesn’t mean it’s bad for your lungs, it’s just that because of your so-called work, a part of them does not breathe properly. The excursion of your lungs, as we doctors put it, is not complete. You sit hunched up, always in the same position… Well, you can well imagine, parts of the lungs breathe properly, while other parts are constricted… And with time … You sit around like that for a year and parts of your lungs forget how to function properly. They wrinkle up, various manifestations of stagnation set in… Like a plough which begins to rust because it’s not being us
