Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

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I considered, briefly, writing this introduction as an homage to Geoff Dyer. I toyed with the idea of delivering a thousand words or so about how I tried, again and again, to get started on my study of Dyer; how much I loved the book and was inspired by it; how I was itching to get down on paper my thoughts but I couldn’t decide where to write it or which pen to use or which copy of the book to work from. .

This book is both a paean to and a lament about procrastination. Geoff Dyer has taken this most writerly of problems and elevated it to an art form: the result is Out of Sheer Rage.

It opens with a juxtaposition of two male writers faced with work problems. First, in the epigraph, we get D. H. Lawrence: ‘Out of sheer rage,’ he writes, ‘I’ve begun my book on Thomas Hardy. It will be about anything but Thomas Hardy. .’ Two pages later, Geoff Dyer begins: ‘Looking back it seems, on the one hand, hard to believe that I could have wasted so much time, could have exhausted myself so utterly, wondering when I was going to begin my study of D. H. Lawrence. .’

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