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Emily Morgan
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Sunday 27 January 1918
Question whether one should write quick events in short scenes, whether fiction should be like life: whether Thackeray has profundity.
— Feb 02, 2026 03:00AM
Question whether one should write quick events in short scenes, whether fiction should be like life: whether Thackeray has profundity.
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Emily Morgan
is on page 102 of 356
Tuesday 8 January 1918
Some fragments came to mind today which, having nothing to record, I may as well put down. How I went to a Registry Office for Nessa; […] There were of course other fragments, which at hint of needing them dissolve in my mind. It’s odd, considering their triviality, how these little scenes come up again & again at odd moments: are thought of, re-enacted, & disappear.
— Jun 22, 2025 04:57AM
Some fragments came to mind today which, having nothing to record, I may as well put down. How I went to a Registry Office for Nessa; […] There were of course other fragments, which at hint of needing them dissolve in my mind. It’s odd, considering their triviality, how these little scenes come up again & again at odd moments: are thought of, re-enacted, & disappear.
Emily Morgan
is on page 99 of 356
3 Jan 1918
But what I like most about Asheham is that I read books there; so divine it is, coming in from a walk to have tea by the fire & then read & read—say Othello—say anything. It doesn't seem to matter what. But one's faculties are so oddly clarified that the page detaches itself in its true meaning & lies as if illumined, before one's eyes; seen whole & truly not in jerks & spasms as so often in London.
— Jun 09, 2025 05:08AM
But what I like most about Asheham is that I read books there; so divine it is, coming in from a walk to have tea by the fire & then read & read—say Othello—say anything. It doesn't seem to matter what. But one's faculties are so oddly clarified that the page detaches itself in its true meaning & lies as if illumined, before one's eyes; seen whole & truly not in jerks & spasms as so often in London.
Emily Morgan
is on page 81 of 356
Friday 23 November 1917
L. went up to London with the rollers, & I meant to go to Kew. On the way it struck me that one ought to decide things definitely. One ought to make up one's mind.
— Jun 09, 2025 03:47AM
L. went up to London with the rollers, & I meant to go to Kew. On the way it struck me that one ought to decide things definitely. One ought to make up one's mind.
Emily Morgan
is on page 79 of 356
Thursday 22 November
I boasted so much about this book & the charm of filling it from a never exhausted fount at Garsington that I'm ashamed to miss days; & yet as I point out, the only chance it has is to wait one's mood. Ottoline keeps one by the way, devoted however to her "inner life"; which made me reflect that I haven't an inner life.
— Jun 09, 2025 03:32AM
I boasted so much about this book & the charm of filling it from a never exhausted fount at Garsington that I'm ashamed to miss days; & yet as I point out, the only chance it has is to wait one's mood. Ottoline keeps one by the way, devoted however to her "inner life"; which made me reflect that I haven't an inner life.
