It is so hard to think
clearly, with subtlety and deftness. It is even harder to articulate one’s
thoughts in a nuanced manner.
When I’m working on a new
literary critical case it sometimes seems as if the books that line my study
walls are leering down at me like so many grotesques, mocking me and my meek efforts.
The more I try to think, the more the thoughts form an impenetrable fog in my mind, a fog that gets everywhere, even in this muggy, muddy English summer.
In order to extricate myself
from these difficulties I have made a rash decision. Yesterday evening, having
posted my review of Agatha Christie’s ‘The Big Four’, I promised myself that I
would update this online journal everyday until the end of the month – and possibly
even beyond.
I hope that by setting myself
the task of writing something new on a regular basis I will disperse the critical
and creative torpor that hangs over me and, it would seem, this whole building. Moreover,
I hope that I will instigate a new practice of writing.
I bumped into Thistleton
yesterday. He expressed some kind thoughts about the project, although he
doubted the possibility of engineering creative insight through practice.
I would really appreciate it
if you, dear Reader, were able to support me in my endeavour by following this
blog (click the button on the right) and by checking in each day to see what I’ve written.
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