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I had only some dim and unformed sense, a sense which struck me now and then, and which I could not explain coherently, that for some years the South and particularly the Gulf Coast had been for America what people were still saying California was, and what C…
There's one essay, "On Keeping a Notebook", in Slouching Towards Bethlehem where Didion tells us a little bit about what her notebooks look like. She shrugs off the idea of diary-keeping, of cataloguing one's day or feelings. Her notebooks are instead a colle…
It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?