Postponing | 9 December 2008

New books received in the mail today, lying on the coffeetable, tempting me to take a peek rather than study for that exam this Friday night. From the first pages of Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer, about not writing a book about D. H. Lawrence:

I even built up an impressive stack of notes with Lawrence vaguely in mind but these notes, it is obvious to me now, actually served not to prepare for and facilitate the writing of a book about Lawrence but to deter and postpone doing so. There is nothing unusual about this. All over the world people are taking notes as a way of postponing, putting off and standing in for.

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