(Director’s note: Pauline de Tholozany, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages department, specializes in 19th-century French Literature. Her first book, L’Ecole de la maladresse (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2017), is a history of clumsiness in the 18th and 19th centuries. She is now working on a second book that focuses on impatience, a feeling that we tend to decry; she is interested in why we do so. Her contribution to this series, posted on Medium.com, is on impatience. She reports that this project as a whole was inspired by Clemson students’ activism and their legitimate, peaceful, and powerful impatience. This is Clemson Humanities Now.)