This I once attempted to do in a geometry textbook I wrote in the 1970's.
Or imposed, as I once attempted, a ban on "crumbly" foods (which led to such negotiating and parsing as to make it not worth the effort)?
Within a few years, I was cheerfully signing up for ultra marathons and triathlons (I once attempted one of each on the same weekend).
My colleagues and I once attempted to rescue a group of Nepali girls trafficked and forced to work as circus performers.
I once attempted to discover who was guilty for a particular hopeless bus service in north London and ended up speaking to someone in his living room in Potters Bar, who told me he was more than satisfied with provision.
He bemoans never finding someone willing to talk about the Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki (I am!), and admits to never finishing — and never wanting to finish — "Ulysses," an old nemesis of mine that I once attempted to destroy by wedging it under a jack to change a flat tire.
I'll admit that I once attempted to hold out from the touchscreen onslaught, genuinely excited when Motorola released that first Droid with a slide out keyboard.
I once attempted suicide on my lunch break, before somehow gathering myself and finishing my shift.
