"When we fail to achieve our goals, procrastination is often the culprit. But how exactly is procrastination to be understood? It has been described as imprudent, irrational, inconsistent, and even immoral, but there has been no sustained philosophical debate concerning the topic." … words from a description of The Thief of Time; Philosophical Essays on Procrastination, edited by Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White.

From a description of the book The Thief of Time by John Boyne … "It is 1758...