I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed. But there is in my nature a strain of asceticism, and I have subjected my flesh each week to a more severe mortification. I have never failed to read the Literary Supplement of The Times.(ibid, p. 9)
10:50 AM. ER one, bipolar disorder, impending manic recurrence, with psychotic feature, OPD f/u 1/14
The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thought, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success ... (ibid, p. 13)
(ibid, p. 15)
4:54 PM. i don't expect, nor anticipate, i accept 大霧駛進昨晚
MY DEAR AMY,
I think you will find everything all right in the flat. If have given Anne your instructions, and dinner will be ready for you and the children when you come. I shall not be there to meet you. I have made up my mind to live apart from you, and I am going to Paris in the morning. I shall post this letter on my arrival. I shall not come back. My decision is irrevocable."
Yours alwyas,
CHALES STRICKLAND (ibid, pp. 47-48)
