Nascent’s Reviews > A Writer's Diary, Volume One, 1873-1876 > Status Update

I had quarreled with almost no one in the literary world, at least not quarreled seriously. Now, at this moment, for the second time in the twenty-seven years of my literary career, I am speaking about myself personally. This was simply a matter of obtuseness, gloomy, suspicious obtuseness that had settled in the mind of some person with a “tendency.”