Whatever it is, getting it out of the way is crucial to your forward momentum. So, to borrow a phrase from Nike, just do it—and do it first thing.

Some talk confidently of fresh trinketings with the King, and that Ashburnham is come to London on purpose.

When I look back at my summer holidays as a child, I smile.

The Dominicans had their own art of memory. But the other great Order of preaching friars, the Franciscans, evinced an interest in Lull, and Lullism in its later history is very often to be found associated with Franciscans.