“He felt good - or at least, he was doing his best to feel good. Edward was on vacation, his first time off since he’d started work four years ago, and he’d forgotten what it was like. He was free to go wherever he wanted, whenever he wanted, and could do whatever he wanted when he got there. He thought he would enjoy it, but he felt unsettled, disoriented. He didn’t know what to do with himself, with this blank, unscripted in-between time. Yesterday he’d been a hard-charging, highly paid investment banker in New York, and two weeks from now he’d be a hard-charging highly paid investment banker in London. For now he was just Edward Wozny, and he wasn’t totally sure who that was. Working was all he did, and it was all he could remember doing. What did people do when they weren’t working? Play? What were the rules? What did you get if you won?

–Codex by Lev Grossman