Why we dread the deadline
Jul 19, 2018
2 minutes
When I’m not writing this column, I’m working on a book, and I’ve got a deadline. I feel as though a sword of Damocles is hanging over me. I’m under Edgar Allen Poe’s pendulum, and every tick of the clock brings its blade closer. I’m far is too close to the literal, that something terrible will happen if I cross that line.
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