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> He plunged into deep meditation in the middle of conversations
...forcing a large complicated thunk in the middle of a simple function definition
> could not help waking up late in the morning
...all expressions are suspended by default
> and failed to do his chores in a timely manner.
...evaluation is delayed.
> "You must go back to your strict ways."
...the opposite of "strict" being "lazy", in FP terms.
The comments confirm it, the "H___ temple" being the Haskell community.