brain-wandering

Updated: June 5, 2025

The pity is that our brains have a way of 'wandering, as it is politely called. Brain-wandering is indeed now recognised as a specific disease. I wonder what you, O business man with an office in Ludgate Circus, would say to your office-boy, whom you had dispatched on an urgent message to Westminster, and whom you found larking around Euston Station when you rushed to catch your week-end train.

Arnold Bennett - The Human Machine