Tue 23 November 1926

I am re-doing six pages of Lighthouse daily. This is not I think, so quick as Mrs D. [mrs dalloway]: but then I find much of it very sketchy, & have to improvise on the typewriter. This I find much easier than re-writing in pen & ink. My present opinion is that it is easily the best of my books, fuller than J's R. [jacob's room] & less spasmodic, occupied with more interesting things than Mrs D. & not complicated with all that desperate accompaniment of madness. It is freer & subtler I think. Yet I have no idea yet of any other to follow it: [...]

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Sat 20 March 1926

But what is to become of all these diaries, I asked myself yesterday. If I died, what would Leo make of them? He would be disinclined to burn them; he could not publish them. Well, he should make up a book from them, I think; & then burn the body. I daresay there is a little book in them: if the scraps & scratches were straightened out a little. God knows.

This is dictated by a slight melancholia, which comes upon me sometimes now, & makes me think I am old: I am ugly. I am repeating things. Yet, as far as I know, as a writer I am only now writing out my mind.

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die live-berichterstattung der bbc ist seit tagen hervorragend.

kontrolluntersuchung: ohne beanstandungen.

Summer 1926

Arnold Bennett says that the horror of marriage lies in its "dailiness".

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bbc

der letzte ›royal‹ der verhaftet wurde war charles I, 1649 (?); er verlor anschließend seinen kopf. extraordinary!

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egal wann ich abends aus dem fenster sehe: der typ gegenüber guckt nur fußball, ausschließlich & permanent.