to be cynical, I would have to say one acquires this habit by:
living in a small city in a country where one doesn't speak the language
(Foucault seems in fact to allude to this),
living in a time before television or the internet,
having no partner to complain about the amount of time you spend writing.
Foucault does elsewhere (at the beginning of Society Must Be Defended) speak
of his twin obsession, that of the archivist, his obsession for spending his
days in libraries poring over obscure texts. When he acquired that, I don't
know.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clare O'Farrell" <panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:13 AM
Subject: foucault and writing
> Foucault writes:
>
> 'It was in Sweden, during the long Swedish night, that I caught this
> obsession and this bad habit of writing five or six hours a day...'
> ('Interview avec Michel Foucault', Dits et Ecrits t.1, Paris:
> Gallimard, p.652
>
> This explains a lot - what I would like to know is how do I develop
> similar bad habits??
> --
> Clare
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