Do you keep a diary?

*fixed the name*

Maybe he wanted to have the data to refer back to for whatever reasons.

I don't keep a diary as such but I have many notebooks that contain all kinds of things. Big old A4 wire spiral hinged lined notebooks with scribbles, ponderings, ideas, grocery lists, to do lists, little poems, notes on peoples personality traits and why I think they are the way they are and many other things. Nothing much has a particular date attached to it unless I specifically need to remember the date for that entry.

I wouldn't care at all if they were published after my death.

Interesting.

I have the same but have never considered it a diary. Thanks for the original perspective.

No. Women and gays keep diaries.

don't care, it's all ciphered

I keep word docs.

Could you explain what you mean by "ciphered"?

I have absolutely no faith in digital security whatsoever.

None.

The only computer(s) I keep anything on are my work computer(s) -- for work files -- and that's it, because there's no other way.

Point being: if I truly didn't expect/want it to be read/published, I wouldn't keep it on a computer any more (perhaps even more) than I wouldn't keep it on paper.

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GLP is my diary

flash drive

something like this yeah.

real talk.

I let the NSA take care of that for me. It's what they get paid for, afterall.

Just started one a week or so ago. I'm over 50 and really wished I had jotted some things down more in the past to refer to later. Spend about 5 or 10 minutes in evening gathering what happened that day of importance (if anything).

I can understand this sentiment entirely.

But even still, I feel somewhat obligated to break their algorithms. So, in a way, this kind of diary is for both the casual onlookers and the official watchers.

A message to all.

No matter how high up the ladder -- or deep down in the pit, depending on your persepctive -- a person goes, their perception can still be swayed. There's always another rung, or a shovel, somewhere nearby.

Hypothetically speaking, would it upset you to find out that in the future -- after your passing -- your diary was published?

Awesome post right there, great prose.

:thumbsup:

It's mostly young teens or pre teen girls who keep diaries.

The rest, idk, possible literary passion

I sure hope that this is working out good for you my dear one.

Diaries, journals -- whatever you want to call them.

I've been thinking about this all day.

And, the most humanistic understanding I can develop about this is that Malinoswki had to maintain some sort of balance.

In his publicized books, he presented the trobrian islanders -- the people he studied -- as edified, dignified, or at least equivalent in terms of philosophical and life-style value to the western audiences who were buying his books.

In his diary/journal, he far less extensively described them as "brutes" worthy of extermination, n-qqers, and detestable.

Maybe he was losing his identity among them, and felt the need to lash out, if even personally, in an effort to maintain his desired identity.

Maybe a little direct but potent harshness outweighed the overwhelming affinity that appeared in his quite voluminous public writings about them.

I can imagine at length why he would have wrote these things.

What I still can't understand is why he didn't destroy the works after he created them.

Was the idea that his public works could only exist -- their potency -- so long as his counter-balancing private works did -- that they both had to be in the world, but one hidden while the other revealed?

Was the social-animosity uncovered in his secret works just an emotional or psychology tool to promote his true affinity for these people?

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mine was stolen when i moved this is lenetra wysinger if you have my diary email me at [email protected]

I keep pictures in my head, mostly of things I choose to remember. Lately I have decided to remember number seq. attached to people same pic idea. I have a good memory. for instance the number attached to a person wanting to be logged into my software.shows me their name, their history of purchases..J/K I gotta story in my head that beats the drums of NEVERMORE.

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