Stiff task

I’ve set myself a stiff task—to rid myself of lazy, non-productive and stale ways of perception and to try adopt a more creative and controlled way in which to live my life. When I think seriously about what that means, the enormity of the task makes me pale.

I haven’t made any real progress in that direction at all, despite all the ritualised jottings in the margins of these pages in late December about Grey Triangles and the Will to Purpose. . . .