Enclosure – RG's page from a 'word game'.
Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- In Collection:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-972
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-10-16_01_enc.html
- July 19, 2002
- Enclosure – RG's page from a 'word game'. Miss illum Robert Alan Beryl Laura Harry Alix Robert Alan etc Right conclusions are never so conspicuously right as when the protagonists of right have discussed irrelevant mediaeval and Hellenistic parallels or dilated circumlocuously on hypothetical ideologies such as Erastian and Acuanite slanders on reality, although they possibly somewhat carelessly rely on comments which previous scholars have carelessly construed as having meant something previously; because they inevitably undergo have undergone rigourous annotation and therefore are completely unsuitable material for treatment in by illiterate futures. [figure – handdrawn line bisects the page, demarcating a second 'word game'] Harry Alix Robert Alan Beryl Laura Harry Alix Robert etc The old bitch went down with her six red shawls and there breathed so hard that she seen to find close to her knees a queer stream of dust blent with phlegm which she caused her own son to take through long and dank woods that for years had grown thick with streams of green, sans means of sense , or strength they – senil all streams stream to no end, so let cows go mute, sons go wild, woods turn coal, bitch turn confuse dust, phlegm sink down, breath rise, tale means nought, end come here.
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