Author Topic: Procrastination (Read 547 times)

_noXiouS_ · « **on:** May 06, 2010, 08:52:51 PM »

for the procrastinators out there :pagel:

We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action. We glow, we are consumed with eagerness to commence the work, with the anticipation of whose glorious result our whole souls are on fire. It must, it shall be undertaken to-day, and yet we put it off until to-morrow, and why? There is no answer, except that we feel perverse, using the word with no comprehension of the principle. To-morrow arrives, and with it a more impatient anxiety to do our duty, but with this very increase of anxiety arrives, also, a nameless, a positively fearful, because unfathomable, craving for delay. This craving gathers strength as the moments fly. The last hour for action is at hand. We tremble with the violence of the conflict within us, -- of the definite with the indefinite -- of the substance with the shadow. But, if the contest have proceeded thus far, it is the shadow which prevails, -- we struggle in vain. The clock strikes, and is the knell of our welfare. At the same time, it is the chanticleer -- note to the ghost that has so long overawed us. It flies -- it disappears -- we are free. The old energy returns. We will labor now. Alas, it is too late!

[/size]

One of the things I love about Poe is the way he explains basic human nature through the characters in his stories. He's not up there in the clouds, writing some esoteric crap. Although Poe had the intellect to argue with the best philosphers, he is right here on the ground with the rest of us. What I am trying to learn is how Poe, with such an imagination as he had, didn't succumb to procrastination himself. It almost makes me tired just thinking about the volume of works he produced, not to mention the vast array of material that he read

Author Topic: Procrastination (Read 547 times)

_noXiouS_

Procrastination

Database Error

Who's Online

Recent Posts