"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
I grew up in a rather enmeshed household, so my sense of privacy is blurred. I don't think anyone in my family writes letters to people: they always seemed to be a product for group consumption, probably a holdover from the days where people had little information except for long letters from the relatives. As a reaction to this, I'm very private about some things.
However, my perceptions are also skewed by knowing many journals, once private, eventually work their way to the historians' mitts. So the tack I take is to try to write the personal and private, omitting nothing, and dodge the idea that someone may see it a few decades or centuries down the line, and may prove valuable in ways I hadn't considered.
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Date: 2009-12-04 08:27 pm (UTC)"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
I grew up in a rather enmeshed household, so my sense of privacy is blurred. I don't think anyone in my family writes letters to people: they always seemed to be a product for group consumption, probably a holdover from the days where people had little information except for long letters from the relatives. As a reaction to this, I'm very private about some things.
However, my perceptions are also skewed by knowing many journals, once private, eventually work their way to the historians' mitts. So the tack I take is to try to write the personal and private, omitting nothing, and dodge the idea that someone may see it a few decades or centuries down the line, and may prove valuable in ways I hadn't considered.