A Book of One's Own: People and Their DiariesMallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the political consequences of keeping a journal, as in the former controversy involving Sen. Bob Packwood. A diarist himself, Mallon places journal writers in history, fleshing them out with both background and witty anecdote. |
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Page 288
... Barbellion so loathes , blocked by his own pressing egotism from imag- ining that Benson might secretly be filling his own desk drawers with millions of words . As early as July 14 , 1912 , Barbellion knows a drastic metamorphosis has ...
... Barbellion so loathes , blocked by his own pressing egotism from imag- ining that Benson might secretly be filling his own desk drawers with millions of words . As early as July 14 , 1912 , Barbellion knows a drastic metamorphosis has ...
Page 289
... Barbellion must first be obsessed with his death . As far back as 1907 he is imagin- ing " cinema pictures " of it . Will he make it through the night ? Should he try suicide ? No , even that would be insufficient orchestration of his ...
... Barbellion must first be obsessed with his death . As far back as 1907 he is imagin- ing " cinema pictures " of it . Will he make it through the night ? Should he try suicide ? No , even that would be insufficient orchestration of his ...
Page 291
... Barbellion is not so much conscious of failure here as he is disappointed that there is nothing left for him to do . There is no more inventing of himself possible - no time for any more retouchings and additions to his " self - erected ...
... Barbellion is not so much conscious of failure here as he is disappointed that there is nothing left for him to do . There is no more inventing of himself possible - no time for any more retouchings and additions to his " self - erected ...
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