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Old journal entries often amuse me. If I don't mind myself saying (ha) if there is one thing I enjoy about my own words is that earnest severity, restraint and orderliness expressed only by the pen and never in speech or living spaces.
(Dated January the 22 of this year. Not in this journal.)
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N is a splendid, thinking friend. Not too depressing company, either.
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I really am chortling now.
(Dated January the 22 of this year. Not in this journal.)
Bought new books at the Forum fair near the library: Sophocles' The Theban Plays; and The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe. I think it prudent to purchase Penguin Classics secondhand since the new books seem so expensively out of reach. It is lamentable and appreciated that the monetary value of new books plummet the moment they are removed from the shelves of their bookshop.
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has arrived safely. I am alarmed and overwhelmed by the sudden flood of new books. (The sole cause of that flood, of course, is myself.)
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has arrived safely. I am alarmed and overwhelmed by the sudden flood of new books. (The sole cause of that flood, of course, is myself.)
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N is a splendid, thinking friend. Not too depressing company, either.
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I really am chortling now.
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