Out of Sheer RageSitting down to write a book about his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is, in fact, compelled to do more or less anything else instead of writing. In Sicily, he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexico, he cannot get beyond a drug induced erotic fantasy on a nudist beach. And yet, incredibly, this attempt to write a 'sober academic study'