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

# 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. Handwritten at end by NM: “That is a skin may be capable of all sexual enjoyment, but the one of laying conquering hands whom a woman’s nudity.”
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
  • December 28, 1954
  • December 29, 1954
  • December 31, 1954
  • January 3, 1955
  • January 20, 1955
  • January 24, 1955
  • January 25, 1955
  • January 26, 1955
  • January 27, 1955
  • January 31, 1955
  • February 1, 1955
  • February 2, 1955
  • February 7, 1955
  • February 10, 1955
  • February 14, 1955
  • February 21, 1955
  • February 22, 1955
  • 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?