New Year dynamics, not resolutions. Already the year is moving forward, carrying me on a massive forward-moving social tsunami...
I'm not sure what concept of time this ties in with: a ramped-up version of Bergson's duree, perhaps? But I am living it, that's for sure: a presentation on the 8th January at Goldsmiths, another on the 1st March at Warwick. And, in between, the much-awaited and prepared-for viva on the 23rd January. As I journey, there has to be ongoing attention to another thesis chapter, all ten thousand words of it; the development of two play texts, one in verse, another in prose; and preparations for a reading and eventual production of the verse drama in July. (It's practice-as-research, don't you know?)
With all this there is copious reading, visits to the British library, Senate House, Goldsmiths. All of which means greater selectivity: the dropping of unnecessary or peripheral commitments, or at least managing them better in the time available. And finding moments to be still, those precious islands in the stream...
A dynamics of choice, a feeling for what is more vital, more pressing.
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