A Procrastinator's Work Is Never Done

To the Editor:

W.A. Pannapacker's essay on procrastination was excellent, yet missed an important point ("How to Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci," The Chronicle Review, February 20). Although Leonardo is one of the greatest painters, his meager output demonstrates a fatal flaw in his genius. The most-effective great artist is not the one who flits away to make some unrelated discovery while he is painting, but the one whose fascination becomes more and more wrapped up in what he

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