Talk:Lipton’s Journal

Entry Dates

December 1, 1954

#	NM#	First Words	x-Refs	Cut	Notes
1	1	Perhaps the artist is less
2	2	Lipton's seems to open one
3	3	Fucking is perhaps an approach
4	4	In relation to (1)	L1		Note.
5	5	The concentration camp novel	x		Note. Unclear x-ref # in note.
6	6	One should always listen attentively			Note.
7	7	Herbert A[ptheker]. said of Lipton’s			Note.
8	8	In modern jazz, one feels			Note.
9	9	Thoreau’s beautiful remark			Note.
10	10	I upset Herbert [Aptheker] by saying
11	11	In a short novel		x	Note.

December 8, 1954

#	NM#	First Words	x-Refs	Cut	Notes
12	12	One should always try to		x
13	13	It seems to me that
14	14	It is possible that many			Note.
15	15	All of my life with Adele
16	16	If there is that other world
17	17	Listening to a child
18	18	I advertise to everyone
19	19	Six and Four are close
20	20	Knowledge is systematized ignorance
21	21	A novel is slowly emerging
22	22	It may be that the
23	23	In the conc. camp novel	L17
24	24	There may actually be such
25	25	Every word sets up	L24		Note.
26	26	Television may have some extraordinary			Note.
27	27	Possibly the spasmodic nervous system
28	28	Vomiting may be the orgasm
29	29	No saint can be a teacher
30	30	Infants may be enormously wise
31	31	The saint and the psychopath			Note.
32	32	No one is more unreligious
33	33	Medicine may be witchcraft			end: [and] its emphasis on progress.
34	34	The aggressive instinct
35	35	Psychoanalysis, liberalism, etc. etc.
36	36	I have learned more from
37	37	In The Deer Park after the			Note.
38	38	If the more saintly people
39	39	In a Collier’s article			Note.
40	40	Words are not entirely bad
41	41	Death may be the price
42	42	I know nothing about semantics
43	43	Talk with Rhoda L.			Note.

December 17, 1954

#	NM#	First Words	x-Refs	Cut	Notes
44	44	The saint and the churchman
45	45	There is no death-instinct
46	46	What worries me today
47	47	Spengler is a great writer	L48		Notes.
48	48	Swing in jazz is different
49	49	When Susie speaks of “war”
50	50	There is a lesson for me	L47
51	51	A remark on why psychoanalysts
52	52	When the businessman thinks
53	53	Perhaps the reason Susy			Note.
54	54	I understand now what Danny			Notes.
55	55	The word is a flat
56	56	In the larger sense			Note.
57	57	The Stalinists have sneered			Note.
58	58	My characters in The Deer Park
59	58	Equations: Man is born			Added punctuation in ¶3.
60	59	The big novel could			Note.

Questions

1. What do we want to do with omitted entry numbers? Just skip them? Or should they be included in the digital version but not the printed?
2. Are the numbers on Donna’s transcript the new, correct numbers? (I know Mike said that Mailer mis-numbered some entries.)
3. Should each entry date have its own index page? Perhaps each numbered entry could be summarized here?
4. Should each numbered entry should have its own (sub)page? I think yes.
5. Should each numbered entry have a title other than a number? Each could have a shortcut, so if the title is Lipton’s Journal/December 1, 1954/1, the shortcut could be LJ1 or just L1.
6. Should we categorize numbered entries? Thematically? Style of entry?