But how can I begin writing when I do not know whether I shall have time enough, and the torture comes when you say to yourself, 'Yesterday there would have been enough time'-and again you think, 'If only I had begun yesterday …' And instead of the clear and precise work that is needed, instead of a gradual preparation of the soul for that morning when it will have to get up, when-when you, soul, will be offered the executioner's pail to wash in-Instead, you involuntarily indulge in banal senseless dreams of escape-alas, of escape …
( Vladimir Nabokov )
[ Invitation to a Beheading ]
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