"When I thought
of the ideal conditions for working, in other words, I looked at things from
the perspective of someone not working, of someone on holiday, of a tourist in
Taormina. I always had in mind the view that my desk would overlook, thereby
overlooking the fact that the view from the desk is invisible when you are
actually working, and forgetting that of the many genres of sentence I dislike
there is none that I despise more than ones which proceed along the lines of
‘If I look up from my desk . . .’ The ideal conditions for working were
actually the worst possible conditions for working."
~ Geoff Dyer,
Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H. Lawrence, 1997
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