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[kimberlywade]

            “Over recent years I had increasingly lost faith in literature.  I read and thought this is something someone has made up.  Perhaps it was because we were totally inundated with fiction and stories.  It had got out of hand.  Wherever you turned you saw fiction.  All these millions of paperbacks, hardbacks, DVDs and TV series, they were

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[cmcmck]

Poetry is almost always the unmentioned obvious.

I keep a longhand written diary as I have done since I was fifteen (and you know why that date).

I keep it because I'm a historian.

I've recently finished a book about a sixteenth century town executioner from Nuremberg. He was unusual because he was literate and kept a journal all his life. Imagine how much of his thought world this opens up!

[kimberlywade]

Wow, that book sounds fascinating. What's the name?

I, too, keep a handwritten journal. It's interesting to dip back once and awhile.

[cmcmck]

It's Joel Harrington's: 'The Faithful Executioner: Life & Death in the Sixteenth Century'.

[kimberlywade]

Thanks!