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Anyway, it was a lie, because lack of time partly resulted from my choice of priorities. I did not have to spend so much time at my friends’ places discussing life, love, politics, the world. I did not have to go out to all the plays, films, exhibitions and concerts that always seemed so necessary. I could stop going to parties. I could limit my environmental activism. It was just that my desire to write about the world paralleled my interest in participating in it, and whilst participating in it you cannot also write, unless you’re the type to scribble in cafes, which I have always thought pretentious.
