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[mausnotes]

In a sense, the eighteenthy century believed, writing creates the self. Certainly, Boswell thought so. His fragmented energies found both a corrective and a display in his journal. He would fret on days when nothing exciting could be found for it, as if it led a surrogate existence more valuable than his own. (45)
-- Ormond Seavey, Becoming Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and the Life.