Even genuine offline solitude cannot substitute for returning to real work.

Evidence

But as easy as it was to romanticize giving everything up and living like a hermit in this isolated cabin, I knew I eventually needed to return home, where the world waited and the real work remained to be done. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 131

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the anti-withdrawal reading central to the reader’s defense of the book.