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.
61	60	I learned a practical matter
62	61	I have always hated sentimentality
63	62	The measurement of time
64	63	Advertising and television and radio			Note.
65	64	Because the desire for material
66	65	Almost always experts can never

December 28, 1954

#	NM#	First Words	x-Refs	Cut	Notes
67	66	At its best, my mind
68	67	Over and over again

December 29, 1954

#	NM#	First Words	x-Refs	Cut	Notes
69	68	“Vested interest” is enormously more
70	69	Get beneath words		x	Partial cut.
71	70	The gossip is the great
72	71	Words have not only echoes
73	72	The concealments of language
74	73	The sensual is the soul’s
75	74	The Sense of the Past
76	75	There are two kinds of hatred
77	76	The power of the word			Note.
78	77	They key to Sergius’ character
79	78	The breakup with Lulu			Note.
80	79	Jokes. Charley Wiener just said		x	Note needed?: Charley Wiener
81	80	Eitel in court		x	Note.
82	81	In error there is also truth
83	82	Eitel and Elena—last chapter			Note. Use partial w/ L81, too.
84	83	Don Beda			Note.
85	84	Interpretations of present events			Notes.
86	85	My feeling about semantics	L42		Note.
87	86	One thing must be said	L85, L71
88	87	Stories of dreams		x
89	88	Bombing as the great shitting		x
90	89	Comedians and comic writers		x
91	90	Women who always hate
92	91	The more knowledge
93	92	Possibly, bad works of art		x
94	93	The spy (another adventurer)			Note.
95	94	Actors and spies
96	95	When a friend says		x
97	96	“Am I boring you?”
98	97	So, boredom, depression, laughter
99	98	Saints and psychopaths
100	99	Laughter is spiritual
101	100	The psychopath sees the present
102	101	So the hipster is the adventurer
103	102	Given my intellectual verbal mind
104	103	A possibility occurs to me			Note.
105	104	Marion Faye note
106	105	Note 103 could be	L103		Could the x-ref actually be L105?
107	106	Marion Faye note			Note.
108	107	Marion Faye on Eitel
109	108	Marion Faye in prison
110	109	Sergius is my brother
111	110	Marion F Journal
112	111	My journal again
113	112	False humility		x	Seems like this should not be cut, as L115 alludes to it.
114	113	Marion Faye journal
115	114	(My journal) Arrogance
116	115	Humor is more than wit
117	116	Marion Faye’s note		x
118	117	Man may be terrible		x
119	118	The fear of being ridiculous
120	119	Toward the end of Marion		x
121	120	Marion Faye’s note about		x
122	121	Any art-work which
123	122	“Do you know, Sergius?”
124	123	Dorothea O’Faye could figure

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?