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Yes, I thought so. While avoiding the day's actual work, I found a link to this Slate.com article via Shelf Awareness that should make us all feel better about ourselves. It's their look at "Great Novels About Wasting Time." Specifically, that "... small and unnerving category of literature that is not only about procrastination but that, in form and style, enacts the frenetic paralysis of irrational delay. The reader who procrastinates may discover the sharpest pleasures and horrors of recognition within the tangled, meandering sentences in these slender volumes--detour-clogged journeys that go around and around in crooked, tortured circles as they strenuously avoid their destinations." Among the masters cited: Thomas Bernhard, Geoff Dyer, John Edgar Wideman. (You know, I've been meaning to pick up Wideman in particular, but just keep putting it off.) Anyhow, if these guys can make art out of procrastinating -- does that not make us all artists as well? Maybe? Darn. Back to work. (DMN file photo/Natalie Caudill) |
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