Composition of Philosophy. July 29.

While supervising the work of the painters (who did an excellent job, though it took much longer than expected) I was thinking about section 4D. And I’m still thinking about it, so today was a light revision day. All I revised was the brief introduction to Chapter 5. That’s only 1 page, and took a total of 20 minutes from zero to final draft.

That means that it’s taken 19 hours and 56 46 minutes to get to page 53 of the final draft.

Another statistic: each minute of writing has yielded 13.5 words on average, which isn’t bad. That means that each sentence of the book is taking about 1 minute to create ex nihilo.

What now remains to be revised are the following sections: 4D, 5A, 5B, 5C, and 5D.

Tomorrow I again need to be at the Embassy at 8 AM to pick up (I hope) the new passport and walk it over to the old AUC campus to start processing the new Egyptian residence visa for it. This means that I can’t make it a late night tonight, so all I plan to do before sleeping is make a very thorough list of all the things that need to be fixed in the Chapter 5 rough draft, which will greatly speed up the process of finalizing that whole chapter.

4D is the hardest section of the whole first half of the book, so it may be the one that is revised last, out of order.