Beyond the Pale

Whence the condemnation of loitering? Why this aversion to what is, after all, the definitive metaphor for the human condition""? To loiter: to remain in an area for no obvious reason"" (Merriam-Webster). And this is a book for loitering and loiterers. You can ramble through, or simply dip in at will. It says something about our times that the aphorism has almost but not quite disappeared from contemporary English literature, and the reason must, at least in part, be our contemporary attitude to time. Renzo Llorente's aphorisms challenge the accepted faith in the free market without adopting another form of blind dogmatism, and like many writers of aphorisms, Llorente does not provide absolutes but encourages readers to think for themselves.