Enclosure – Sentence 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-1-980
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1937-10-24_01_enc.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- Enclosure – Sentence Game Any sepulcher requires constant refuelling of its duly emptied but slightly, nevertheless, soiled – what may be with genuine accuracy miscalled, perhaps, unsightly detritus – firt or sorry ch-can, whereas no sepulchre becomes in such degree empty of associations, owing to filial or pre-natal success in achieving the cause of whereby all illustrious figures corrupt their realities and vanish, withered yet alive hypothetically that it requires ministrations characteristically devoted to domestic resuscitation yet still abstract and only half sincere. If those things which now you hear told of men are of soon lost in night, noise, scorn or jest, why, dark must be faith when you hear things grow queer — though of small use to books, breds, God, be your faith. Whether we all decide to believe the description given by our self constituted lying mentors or eye witnesses of conditions in territories subject to democratic criticism, or decide to investigate from inside all appearance of doubtful suggestions, whichever disgust pre- dominates most in prophecy, let us accept unswervingly the main conclusions implied in thoughts undoubtedly cooperative in approaching the future, no matter what anyone may individually propound from reading lying accounts he has no business to read
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