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Partly Facetious : 'Fatigue is the best pillow'

"I would just like to remind the cabinet that belabouring a point on the media leads to fatigue."
Published April 16, 2019

"I would just like to remind the cabinet that belabouring a point on the media leads to fatigue."
"And need I remind you of Benjamin Franklin's quote, fatigue is the best pillow."
"Hey, we all like different kinds of pillows - I like them extra thin, another likes them kind of thick...and then some like goose feather pillows but can't afford them, then there are some who don't take pillows at all and..."
"Don't be facetious, you know what I meant. Fatigue makes one sleep better."
"Well, I am not so sure. Gogol, the Russian writer, said, the influence of a woman can be very great, especially now, in the present order or disorder of society, in which there is a kind of spiritual chill, a kind of moral fatigue, demanding reanimation. In order to produce this reanimation, the cooperation of woman is indispensable."
"Do shut your trap. You know The Khan does not like any mention of the women in his life and rightly so and..."
"I apologize but you, not I, referred to the subject. Anyway we need to distinguish between physical and mental fatigue and I quote French actress Clotilde Hesme who said she preferred physical exhaustion to mental fatigue and when I said I wanted to remind the cabinet that belabouring a point on the media leads to fatigue I was referring to mental fatigue."
"If you are referring to The Khan's explicit, not implicit, explicit, instructions to his cabinet to keep corruption of previous rulers in the limelight at every public forum, and in the event that there is no public forum available on any day, to do what the Zardis and Nawalas were directed to do: go to the Press Information Department and hold a press conference and..."
"I remember the days when the PTI would go to the press club and the PML-N to PID..."
"Hmmm, there has definitely been a change in government; anyway if this government can control corruption, and capital flight, then as per a recent study by the IMF tax collections would rise, and the burden on the economy decline..."
"Right, but then the focus cannot be on just two families but on the system..."
"Ishrat Hussin as the head of the task force came up with some recommendations that focus on the issues facing the bureaucracy rather than on holding them accountable and sort of weakening their hold on power and..."
"You reckon Punjab's new team of bureaucrats is same o same o?"
"Let's wait and see but I would bet on it."
"Betting is against Islamic injunctions..."
"Even if I just bet token money..."
"Well, only if you declare it first..."
"Don't be facetious."

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