The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Looking at the past often times helps foretell the future. The craze of [url=http://www.austin-stories.com/]online journals is not without precedent.
While I was in Dallas, we stopped at a Borders Bookstore. Wouldn’t bother with a chain’s name except that one store is in a special location for me, at one time, a famous grocery store. Never happened to me, but local lore, at least “back in the day,” was that it was a great place to meet and greet. {[i]i.e.[/i], best place to get picked up at 2 in the morning, after drinking unsuccessfully all night – wouldn’t know, never happened to me}
I like it better as a bookstore, even if it a chain.
I picked up [url=http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=26122&cgi=search/search&searchtype=isbn&searchfor=0679642218]The Diary of Samuel Pepys because I figure it’s some kind of proto-blog. I was reading it, in part, online. [url=http://www.pepysdiary.com/]Done blog style, no less.
I’ll be interested to see if that website ever generates as much interest as it did when it was first launched. My back story is a little different, too.
At some point, in English Lit., those diaries are covered in survey classes. The literature index – not unlike the stock market – goes up and down, sometimes for no reason, and that lit index had “The Diaries” at a low point at least until recently. Apparently there’s been some [url=http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=26122&cgi=search/search&searchtype=isbn&searchfor=0375411437]excellent scholarship as of late. Instead of reading what others have to say about what other analysts have come up with, I just decided to jump back into what either my textbook, or the diaries themselves, have to say.
The brief survey text suggested that Samuel Pepys was a interested in two pursuits, making money and chasing women. I’m liking this already, although, I’ve proven rather unsuccessful at the making money part lately. And the chasing women, part, too. I suppose, like fishing, it’s called chasing instead of catching.