Chapter and Verse On How to Keep a Diary Becoming a Committed Diarist Is Not an Easy Undertaking F nor Is Stopping Once You Ve Begun
Sunday Herald › January 13, 2005
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WHERE diarists are concerned, discretion is not the better part of valour. The best diarists are those who seem not to care what they say or how they portray themselves. Rather they live in a bubble of their own blowing, oblivious to what others think of them, suspended in a state of sublime self-consciousness. It is as if they are talking to the mirror, unburdening to another self all their cares and woes and prejudices. It is a form of narcissism.
The diarists whose diaries remain fresh, to whom we continually return, have one consuming subject: themselves.See the full content of this document
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Chapter and Verse On How to Keep a Diary Becoming a Committed Diarist Is Not an Easy Undertaking F nor Is Stopping Once You Ve Begun
Like all great artists, they make what they do seem easy. Of course, it's anything but.
"Being a good and interesting diarist, " writes Ian Jack in the latest issue of Granta, "as anyone who has tried to keep a diary will know, is harder than it looks. The temptation to make one important to oneself is usually present ?" That ...See the full content of this document
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