Three tales of creative slowness

“A week is nothing, one thinks one can do so much in a week”

Don’t you love it when you pick up a book more or less at random and it ends up being exactly the thing you needed to read in that moment? This happened to me last week with Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John. I’ll say more about the book below; first, here’s one passage that I especially needed to read, from a letter that Gwen John, a Welsh painter, sent to a friend in 1904: