Journals

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(12/10/76 – Ireland) I’m in Sligo + it’s getting harder to write in here. I feel few creative urges, and merely recording my travels is not very exciting. Now when they are fresh in my mind it is a mere rote exercise writing them down. It will only be later – maybe years from now … Read more

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(November 27, 1976 – Ireland) What am I doing traveling to see scenery when I live among the best in the world – the rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula, the Sound, the Alaska mountains + coast. The fishing towns, the interesting people- why do I travel to see what is second best to my … Read more

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(July 8, 1967, his 23rd birthday) The Snows of Kilomonjaro by Hemingway has been called a summary of everything he’s ever written. It’s about a man dying in Africa who thinks back over all the stories he’s wanted to write, all the life he’s wanted to record + never will now. He thinks of squalor … Read more