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9/8/45

Should like to determine the reason or the host of reasons why I avoid meeting people, encountering them on my walks, why I avoid greeting even the most pleasant acquaintances by crossing the street when I see them far ahead of me on the sidewalk. Perhaps it is, basically, the eternal hyp…

7/1/45

For future reference: In case of doldrums of mind or body or both, sterility, depression, inertia, frustration, or the overwhelming sense of time passing and time past, read true detective stories, take suburban train rides, stand a while in Grand Central—do anything that may give a sweep…

I am a coruscating pinwheel of delight

5/17/45

The beautiful wonderful sensations of working again, after chaotic idleness that is anything but restful. To hell with the ship-getting-its-keel-back theory! This is literally being on top of the world. By dealing with three characters in a story, one somehow gets atop the entire world, …

Happy just as I was at nineteen. My brain is a tabula rasa—and life excites me.