slow to deliver

The Guardian reveals the shocker that P. Diddy is "not a poet starving in a garret" in an interesting article arguing that procrastination has been linked to integrity all the way back to Proust and beyond.

Still, a worrying precedent is being set here. What will the world of literature come to if every late-delivering author is held to account? Authors have been slow to deliver ever since Moses came down from Mount Sinai with his tablets of stone (40 days and nights late, according to his editor).