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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 23, 2017 15:37:27 GMT
Do you keep a diary? Have you ever kept a diary? I've been keeping one, daily, on the website Penzu.com since June 2015. (It's hosted on a website, but it's private.) Interested to know if other people have any thoughts or experiences of diaries.
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Post by kj on Aug 23, 2017 15:46:23 GMT
On a website? Jeez, don't you worry it could be hacked and exposed?
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Aug 23, 2017 15:47:21 GMT
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Post by cato on Aug 23, 2017 15:47:21 GMT
I like reading literary or historical diaries . Evelyn Waugh , Joseph Goebbels and Alan Clark have produced gems.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 23, 2017 15:50:13 GMT
On a website? Jeez, don't you worry it could be hacked and exposed? Not really. Who would care enough?
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 23, 2017 15:50:41 GMT
I like reading literary or historical diaries . Evelyn Waugh , Joseph Goebbels and Alan Clark have produced gems. I read Waugh's diaries up until he became successful. Then he became unbearable!
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Post by cato on Aug 23, 2017 16:03:54 GMT
Waugh being unbearable is precisely why Waugh is attractive to his fellow reactionaries.Your inner snowflake is emerging .❄❄
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 23, 2017 16:50:31 GMT
Another thing that bothered me is that he would enter "nothing" for some days. Well, something must have happened on those days. I'm quite compulsive about my diary. I haven't missed a single day.
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Post by mrsmac on Aug 23, 2017 20:47:59 GMT
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 23, 2017 20:53:57 GMT
Thanks for that, Mrsmac, and welcome to the forum.
That software wouldn't be detailed enough for me, though. My two-year diary is seven hundred and forty-five thousand words long!
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Post by cato on Sept 6, 2017 22:14:01 GMT
Sir Roy Strong's diaries Splendours and Miseries 1967-87 are being currently reissued .I had read half way through the original edition and am returning to it after I read an interview with him in last week's Sunday Times.
He is a working class born former director of the National Portrait Gallery and the wonderful Victoria and Albert Museum. His diaries are gossipy ,waspish and witty. Strong an historian (his tome Coronation on royal ritual is superb) is now a fully fledged grumpy old man. He states the duty of the under 80s is to " keep Corbyn out, save the English country church, replace the arts world schmoozers with proper scholars , see off the safe space brigade and cherish the monarchy".
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Post by Johnson of Beastrider on Nov 27, 2017 10:37:50 GMT
I tried keeping a diary years ago but found that there was too much of a temptation to embellish. AJP Taylor ended up shredding his when young because he found that he was deliberately doing outrageous things to have something to write about.
Alan Clark's diaries are a delight, despite the barely veiled (and quite sincere) Nazism.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 27, 2017 11:24:08 GMT
Well, that wouldn't last long if you stuck to it. I actually think a diary should influence your life. I write mine for many reasons, but re-reading it often gives me a perspective on my life and what I should do differently. I enjoy re-reading "dull" days as much as eventful days.
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Post by Johnson of Beastrider on Nov 27, 2017 17:06:44 GMT
But surely there's some level of artifice insofar as you choose to highlight what you think is most interesting. Otherwise it'd become a record of spreading butter on toast, bowel movements, boredom &c.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Nov 27, 2017 17:50:26 GMT
Well, I don't chronicle my bowel movements. But I do record what I eat and drink. What I'm reading. What happens in work. The readings and homilies at Mass. Conversations I have. Things I see on the street. My own thoughts and ideas. Really, there's no want of stuff to write about.
Of course it's selective, but everything is selective!
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