ABSTRACT
The important thing is to work at roughly the same time every day so that body and mind expect to be called on and will respond. Typing saved a lot of time, and there was something about pounding the machine that created the necessary physical contact. For the contact with the typewriter, the author substitute the sensation of sheets of paper appearing whole and clean out of the void. When a scholar has been writing for some time, he is also subject to less obvious temptations to stop writing, less obvious because they flow, from previous accomplishments. There is a Gresham's law–good little projects drive out better big ones–that results from giving in to an insidious form of temptation. The temptation is insidious because there is nothing wrong with the requests. The best way to avoid some kinds of temptations is to give in to others.
