The perfect working day according to "St" C.L.R. James:
"while in France, I look up in the archives. I look up, I look up, I look up in the archives, I spend three or four months looking up in the archives, every morning, walk up the Seine, the bank of the Seine, go to the archives. In France ...
May 16, 2025 10:29... they are concerned about food, as they have every right to be. At twelve o'clock they shut down, everywhere is closed up till two. Archives close up, "St James" closes up, off to eat. Very fine. At two o'clock, I go back. I work. The archives close at five or six. I go home."
C.L.R. James, Lectures on The Black Jacobins (1971)
