To avoid years of penury and frustration and to shape a reasonable work life for themselves aspiring academics must take charge of their own destinies, she says.
This will mean cuts not just in personnel but also in expertise.The museum reckons it needs an extra £6m a year to avoid falling headlong into penury.
As the story progresses, Eve's liking for nights at the theatre and solitary walks through London streets, her illicit passion for a married man, are beaten into submission by her overriding desire to avoid a life of penury.
From both parties, there is endless talk about the need to match spending to revenues, bring down the national debt, avoid putting our grandchildren into penury, and blah, blah, blah.
This explains why the young Africans camping at the edge of Calais live in such penury and do their utmost to avoid any interaction with the French state.
The typical elements of his experience – the years of revising, the near penury (his friend Keith Gessen recalled the phone in their shared Brooklyn apartment going unanswered to avoid collection agencies), the countless rejections – makes his atypical success all the sweeter.
With all the reports of writers facing penury and the dwindling of literary fiction as a dominant narrative form, you might assume that authors, fighting over a shrinking pot of coin, would be pushed to write pedestrian pieces and avoid risk.
Justitia lives in great penury.
