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Yes, I will be doing Casanova’s memoirs, after all.
Since I often get stuck on a book post when it comes to my novels and poetry, and since it is very easy to take a passage from diaries, I think I will use Plath and Casanova to help with the slack. Which means we may be seeing quite a few entries from them, perhaps a couple a day, taking turns between these two memoirists. Unless and until it looks unattractive to me.
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The memoirs of Casanova, though they have enjoyed the popularity of a bad reputation, have never had justice done to them by serious students of literature, of life, and of history.
[...]
They tell the story of a man who loved life passionately for its own sake: one to whom woman was, indeed, the most important thing in the world, but to whom nothing in the world was indifferent.
-- Arthur Symons, preface to "The Complete Memoirs of Casanova (Unexpurgated Edition)"
Since I often get stuck on a book post when it comes to my novels and poetry, and since it is very easy to take a passage from diaries, I think I will use Plath and Casanova to help with the slack. Which means we may be seeing quite a few entries from them, perhaps a couple a day, taking turns between these two memoirists. Unless and until it looks unattractive to me.
_ _ _
The memoirs of Casanova, though they have enjoyed the popularity of a bad reputation, have never had justice done to them by serious students of literature, of life, and of history.
[...]
They tell the story of a man who loved life passionately for its own sake: one to whom woman was, indeed, the most important thing in the world, but to whom nothing in the world was indifferent.
-- Arthur Symons, preface to "The Complete Memoirs of Casanova (Unexpurgated Edition)"
