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Andre Gide: Advice to Marcel Drouin - means of enticement and instigation to work.

1. Intellectual means:

(a) The idea of imminent death.

(b) Emulation; precise consciousness of one's period and of the production of others.

(c) Artificial sense of one's age; emulation through comparison with the biographies of great men.

(d) Contemplation of the ( Read more... )

I created this journal to mark and develop my identity, untainted by readers who seek to develop an unfavorable impression of me.  I created this journal to express the juxtaposition that is my mind and find clarity somewhere in the center of it all.  I don't always make sense and I don't mean to.  I write often and abundantly, at times voraciously ( Read more... )