Saturday, June 27, 2015

Commonplace Book

'...So odd, this newspaper world - writers, and yet how unlike highbrow writers! Applied writing. But can writing be ever "pure", like "pure" science? Perhaps some of the experimenters. Gertrude Stein, Joyce - and at the moment I simply can't feel they matter two pins...'

from Naomi Mitchison's Vienna Diary (March 8th)

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