Talk:Lipton’s Journal

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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

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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

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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

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67 66 At its best, my mind
68 67 Over and over again

December 29, 1954

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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

December 31, 1954

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125 124 I am getting whole bodies
126 125 Thoughts. All thoughts in words Note.
127 126 People who make love
128 127 Get a tape recorder Note. [add tea time info] still needed
129 128 Word echoes: We have
130 129 On the understanding of genius
131 130 Word echoes. Mother and smother
132 131 Seriously, truly, just simply
133 132 In Marion Faye’s journal x
134 133 Jazz is more creative
135 134 I used to be outwardly
136 135 Years ago, working with Malaquais x
137 136 The world allows us to express
138 137 My ambition remains
139 138 I think that the new
140 139 Sexual psychopathy would be normal Note.
141 140 What I learn about The Deer Park
142 141 Most celebrities are people
143 142 Marion Faye’s journal
144 143 Anyone reading these notes
145 144 At the point where Eitel
146 145 The universe is a vast puzzle
147 146 In N.Y. if we want Note.
148 147 Time is the sense of society
149 148 The so-called decadent writers
150 149 Wild thought. The atom bomb Note.
151 150 Don Beda should be
152 151 What Stalinists see
153 152 Don Beda should be
154 153 Time as the sense of society Hand-written note not included.
155 154 Bob Lindner. As he reads Notes.
156 155 The homo-erotic corollary Notes.
157 156 The corollary of this Note.
158 157 What courage Adele has Notes.
159 158 What terrifies me is exactly
160 159 The fuck novel, “Antacid Analgesique.” Note.

January 3, 1955

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161 160 If this record is to have
162 161 One of the curious effects
163 162 What I dislike so much
164 163 Perhaps a man kills
165 164 With Marion Faye this took x
166 165 A psychopath expands

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March 4, 1955

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?