The power of rituals is their predictability. You do the same thing in the same way over and over again. And so the outcome of a ritual is predictable too. If you choose your focus deliberately and wisely and consistently remind yourself of that focus, you will stay focused. It's simple...
ONE OF THE FOUR quotations Josef Skvorecky has chosen as epigraphs for The Swell Season is from another Czechoslovakian artist in exile, Mllos Forman: "They always expect your oewest work to be new io every way. It's impossible.. You spend your whole life saying the same thing over and...