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On the way to Isla Negra, the horsey stopped here:
Obsessions Recorded (from the current issue of TLS):
Thomas Hardy acquired the notebook habit in his twenties, and kept it going all his long life. As well as noting down memories and events, he read widely and took copious notes on his reading, Victorian industriousness further sharpened by the hunger of autodidacticism, building storehouses of nourishment for his novels and poetry. These he referred to as his “notebooks”, “pocket-books”, “memoranda” and “diaries”. Nobody knows how many had accumulated by the time he died aged eighty-seven, as his instructions to burn them were obeyed. Twelve of them survived the executor’s flames, however, and their titles give some idea of their range: the “Architectural Notebook”, the “Trumpet-Major Notebook”, the “Schools of Painting” notebook, the “Studies, Specimens, etc” notebook, the “1867” notebook, and the volumes of “Literary Notes” and “Memoranda”. All have been edited over the past forty years (except Hardy’s “Poetical Matter” notebook which is only available on microfilm, the original having gone missing). The so-called “Facts” Notebook is the last of the twelve to be edited, and it is fascinating.
Rest here: www.the-tls.co.uk
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