October 5, 2002
an essentially eventless waiting
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The rains stopped and
the sun actually appeared for part of the day. Big white
cumulus clouds floated over Au Train all day. Temperatures
remained on the cool side as Autumn returned to work.
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There is a kind of writer's life where nothing at all happens until
he or she sits down at the desk, with the earlier life an
essentially eventless waiting-to-be-a-writer.
John
Lanchester,
Bond in Torment, London Review of Books.


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