Purge 2: The Purgening
Originally posted by Unugunu:
I heard an interview with some writer once who explained his view that journal-keeping was just a form of intellectual masturbation, self-indulgent self-gratification and all that; not necessarily bad for you at the time, maybe even cathartic, but he made sure to throw out all his journals at least once a year. Because honestly, you would never want to go back and look at pictures of yourself actually perpetrating the act, which is what the scribbled (or hastily typed) record provides. And it's true; looking back on the contents of this journal was, for the most part... well, gross and disturbing. It has therefore been purged.
I heard an interview with some writer once who explained his view that journal-keeping was just a form of intellectual masturbation, self-indulgent self-gratification and all that; not necessarily bad for you at the time, maybe even cathartic, but he made sure to throw out all his journals at least once a year. Because honestly, you would never want to go back and look at pictures of yourself actually perpetrating the act, which is what the scribbled (or hastily typed) record provides. And it's true; looking back on the contents of this journal was, for the most part... well, gross and disturbing. It has therefore been purged.