In an Op-ed piece in the NY TIMES, Ann Della Subin explores the subject of procrastination and suggests that perhaps it is a natural response to our over-scheduled modern world, asking the question: "Why not view procrastination not as a defect, an illness or a sin, but as an act of resistance against the strictures of time and productivity…?" Della Subin holds out as an example the novelist Albert Cossery:
“Firm in his belief that time is not as natural or apolitical as we might think, Cossery, in his writings and in his life, strove to reject the very system in which procrastination could have any meaning at all…Rather than charge through the day, storming the gates of tomorrow, his stylized repose was a perch from which to observe, reflect and question whether the world really needs all those things we feel we ought to get done… "So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it,” Cossery would say.