Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary students of literature would reveal that the group was more or less acquainted with the comedies: e.g., "The Alchemist", "Volpone", "Every Man in his Humour", but only the ambitious souls who sit up all night with the heroines of Voltaire, to use Lytton Strachey's phrase, would confess to having read "Sejanus" or "Catiline...
...doth please me much to note his teaching which I confess I do not fully understand, but what I know I will say: Like Plato he doth seek the Real; but he doth not find it in ideas but in process and activity. Thence he doth ask: (and a vital question) What be the status of life in this activity? And doth answer that it be "content". Whereupon this doth imply the interrelationship of life and nature and that one cannot be known apart from the other. And this, methinks, is a mighty fine notion, and one in a large...
...clock to hear Dr. Kuhn lecture on "Rubens" and mighty well, too! Peter Paul Rubens, as all do know, be a great 17th century Flemish painter; and, as Guido Reni says: "A fellow who mixes blood with his colors." Yet, I am sore at my heart to confess, I do not like his large women too much. He doth seem to make a virtue of sheer flesh. But who be I to judge? One critic says: "To Rubens, flesh was enticing in its largeness, its soft luminosity, its creamy evenness of tint...and he painted it with more sense...
...lunch at Winthrop House where I note a merry dance is to be held Feb. 21st; but I must confess I do think the poster which doth announce the affair be in poor taste. This I did tell some ones but all they did say was: "We don't expect you to bring your Grandmother!" Alas, I back to the Tower to lick my wounds...
...must confess to having succumbed to the temptation to purchase one such attractive machine. ... I soon found that the apparatus was in little demand and that the work could be done just as easily with 1) an ordinary treatment table, 2) a plain glass irrigation jar on a stand, 3) a rectal tube and a Y tube with two clamps, and 4) a large closed jar or an ordinary hopper to receive the return flow...