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Jun. 27th, 2005 03:13 pmSeems like all I can read this summer are C-people: Calvino, Carson, Crowley (running out of the latter two fast). Well, them and the bits of Roth left over from what I did last summer.
Proust's is my favorite novel but I think he only ever really changed my mind about one thing, the allpowerfulness of habit, on which he's particularly eloquent. I'm spending most of today reading because I spent most of yesterday reading. I go for weeks or months not reading much of anything because I'd read nothing for weeks and months of days-before. This is worst with exercise. You leave town, you come back and your motivation's just gone, that glass wall is back up.
There should be a service you can call up where they'll send out a drill sergeant to make your life hell for a whole day, do this pay that clean these ten more etc. Straighten you out for a whole season probably. Or maybe you need two days in a row to get it pushed in. Not more than that, I'd think.
Proust's is my favorite novel but I think he only ever really changed my mind about one thing, the allpowerfulness of habit, on which he's particularly eloquent. I'm spending most of today reading because I spent most of yesterday reading. I go for weeks or months not reading much of anything because I'd read nothing for weeks and months of days-before. This is worst with exercise. You leave town, you come back and your motivation's just gone, that glass wall is back up.
There should be a service you can call up where they'll send out a drill sergeant to make your life hell for a whole day, do this pay that clean these ten more etc. Straighten you out for a whole season probably. Or maybe you need two days in a row to get it pushed in. Not more than that, I'd think.
