CLASSIFIED TRANSMISSION 002 / RELEASED
The Crime of Productive Leisure
A report on what happens when even a walk needs a target.
FILE 08-A / SECTION 08 · ORION SAINT
The Department has received credible reports that citizens are optimising their rest.
You have a hobby, and the hobby has a spreadsheet. You go for a walk, and the walk has a target. You read a book faster because somewhere you absorbed the idea that books are objects to clear rather than countries in which to become temporarily lost.
Even sleep has become a performance review delivered each morning by a watch that did not sleep at all.
Opening excerpt · Part Three: The Weight of Time and Self · The Orion Protocol