I was very glad to get back. I plunged at once into a mass of accumulated work and have scarcely lifted my eyes from maps and files. But the pleasure of being well and able to work the whole day long! The truth is that one can’t do without that narcotic. To be idle means having time to think and no thoughts are bearable.
Letters of Gertrude Bell, December 7, 1917
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