“An especially powerful image that. The clock that clicks as generation after generation passes by.”
– Jenny Diski, In Gratitude (2016)
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The Not-Being I Have Already Been
“The not-being that I have already been. I whisper it to myself, like a mantra, or a lullaby.”
– Jenny Diski, In Gratitude, 2016
It Is Doing Nothing
Jenny Diski, “Diary,” London Review of Books 28 May 1992
I do nothing. I get on with the new novel. Smoke. Drink coffee. Smoke. Write. Stare at ceiling. Smoke. Write. Lie on the sofa. Drink coffee. Write.
It is a kind of heaven. This is what I was made for. It is doing nothing. A fraud is being perpetrated: writing is not work, it’s doing nothing. It’s not a fraud: doing nothing is what I have to do to live. Or: doing writing is what I have to do to do nothing. Or: doing nothing is what I have to do to write. Or: writing is what I have to do to be my melancholy self. And be alone.
ANDREW GALLIX 