“You see, the thing about Geoff, is that he doesn’t really do plot.” Or so says Geoff Dyer’s literary agent — a fleetingly minor character in Out of Sheer Rage, Dyer’s account of his failed attempt to write a study of D.H. Lawrence. Or at least I think she says it. I used to have two copies in the house, but I’ve given them both away. And I gave up on a last-minute attempt to listen to the audiobook at 2.2x speed at about the 30 minute (or, more precisely, 66 minute) mark. So I may have imagined it.
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