Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, 'What's the news?' as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give him the news as if they were waiting for his waking to tell him. I should think by the way some men talk that they were still in the womb, and had never been born.
— Henry David Thoreau
Modern
Civil disobedience, Walden
