Exhausting Labor
Oscar Wilde was a poseur and what he said was never necessarily true. However, he was visiting at a friend’s summer house and one morning he did not show up till it was nearly lunchtime.
His friend said, “What have you been doing all morning, Oscar?”
“Working,” said Wilde.
“Accomplish anything?”
“Oh, yes, I inserted a comma in a poem I’m writing.”
He then disappeared all afternoon.
When he showed up for dinner, his friend said, “More work?”
“Yes,” said Oscar. “I removed that comma.”