March 9 Thursday
PublicPage 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-1-1488
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1939-03-09.html
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- July 19, 2002
- March 9 Thursday Proofs still sticky. Laura had a dream of a conversation with Mussolini. He told her that what provoked him to his outrageous ways was the figure of Chamberlain. She assured him that in England nobody took him seriously. This pleased him greatly: 'I never thought the English were so cynical.' Then about fascism. She upset him by saying 'You may not realism realise the evil that it really is causes because of the light character of the Italians which only takes it superficially. But look at what it has made of the Germans!' Then she said: 'There are two categories: the human, the transcendental. You haven't But there has been an attempt made to impose a third one – the superman.' He blushed guiltily. Starting packing up & disposing of things. Alan & Beryl to Rennes to fetch money.
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