It Is Always Hard To

I Like To See Life With Its Teeth Out.

I Don't Wish To Inhabit The Human World Under False Pretences.

When I First Began This Diary I Said I Would Give A Record Of My Inner Life. I Begin To Wonder If I Have Said Anything About My Inner Life. What If I Have No Inner Life?

But It Is Imperative, For Our Own Survival, That We Avoiid One Another, And What More Successful Means Of Avoidance Are There Than Words? Language Will Keep Us Safe From Human Onslaught, Will Express For Us Our Regret At Being Unable To Supply Groceries Or Love Or Peace.

Very Often The Law Of Extremity Demands An Attention To Irrelevance.