The Archive · 1938

Hard Work For Sisyphus

sleep outdoors at night. These hot nights peopple in much more affluent circumstances which permit them all the modern technical methods of keeping cool find it dificult to create that degree of comfort which makes sleep possible and renovating. The police argument, course, is very sound, For several essential hours during the night, crowds are kept off the streets and there is the consequent re-Nef in police duties, but curfew now is really 'a formality. After a year of it most people in Shanghai have re-arranged their lives, to the new tempo with general physical and financial fadventages accruing, and a habit has been created which will be dificult to break. On the other hand, all the cabarets announce that they

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