{"id":2485,"date":"2016-02-20T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T08:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2016-02-20T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T08:05:07","slug":"procrastinators-take-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=2485","title":{"rendered":"Procrastinators, take this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bad news for the procrastinators among the authors of novels! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to Enrique Vila-Matas&#8217; very enjoyable book <em>Bartleby &amp; Co.<\/em> (review to follow), Georges Simenon, the most anti-Bartlebyan author of French language, wrote 41 novels!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And what is even worse, procrastinators &#8211; this was his output not of a lifetime of writing. It was what he wrote in one single year: 1929.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/715CPmZPBXL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Enrique Vila-Matas: Bartleby &amp; Co., translated by Jonathan Dunne, New Directions, New York 2004<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><strong>\u00a9 <\/strong><strong>Thomas H\u00fcbner\u00a0and mytwostotinki.com, 2014-6. Unauthorized use and\/or duplication of this material without expressed and written permission from this blog\u2019s author and\/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Thomas H\u00fcbner\u00a0and mytwostotinki.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.<\/strong><\/pre>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><div class=\"dmrights_badge\">\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\t\t\tcatalogCode = \"AAA-1100-01\"\t\t\r\n \t\t<\/script> \r\n\t\t<div id=\"DMR-seal\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ipregistry_wp.dmrights.com\/dmr.js\"><\/script>\r\n\t\t<\/div><br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for the procrastinators among the authors of novels! According to Enrique Vila-Matas&#8217; very enjoyable book Bartleby &amp; Co. (review to follow), Georges Simenon, the most anti-Bartlebyan author of French language, wrote 41 novels! And what is even worse, procrastinators &#8211; this was his output not of a lifetime of writing. It was what [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12,306],"tags":[1187,902,1188,904],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yNbb-E5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}