Ideas & Suggestions
Autobiography, Memoirs,Diaries and Journals
Arguably the most popular/common form of literature in the last three hundred years, this topic, this blog, this section of DAILYLIT, will in the next few years come to occupy a solid placein the schemeof topics and subjects.
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I beg to differ, but autobiographies and biographies and journals date back to ancient Roman and Greek periods - most of what is know about both civilizations are from diaries and journals, fragments and graffiti; the same could be said of the might Egyptian empire and what writing we have left in ancient Sanskrit are journals, biographies and diaries. And why should they "come to occupy a solid place in the scheme of topic" here in the next few years when they already hold such a position in general literature? Your bombastic rhetoric boils down after the Bourbon has been ignited and burned off to nothing more than your simple desire, I presume, that more "autobiography[sic], memoirs, diaries and journals" be add to the reading list of Daily Lit. Has anyone ever discussed syntax with you as it applies to a simple sentence?
Aug 31, 2009 7:26 pm
by elliott57 -
I've read some; those meant for the public are usually larger than life presentations of the ego - while a "secret" diary, that has been published, is no secret any longer.
Sep 1, 2009 12:04 pm
by zorin48 -
...whatever it is you're smoking, you've found you're Xanadu! i think it would take great gull maximus to publish the secret diary of a loved one after their passing, it should be burned , not read, our eyes have no invitation into the journey composed on those pages. I will say you have a clever knack for the obvious, indeed that which is secret and has been told is no longer secret anymore ... alas and alack I wonder if that idea is what puts the flame under those Hollywood and London tabloids, not to mention the obnoxious paparazzi.
by elliott57