("Every woman who has ever kept a diary knows that women write in diaries because things are not going right," her foreword begins).
Those who have read "Bridget Jones's Diary" know that such sanguine, Zen-like sentiments are hardly what the nakedly ambitious and chronically dissatisfied Bridget, a publicist turned wacky television feature correspondent, would be likely to utter.
While Ozick presented a damning chronicle of how a merry band of bowdlerizers, led by Lillian Hellman, reshaped Anne's diary into a Hollywood-friendly stage play, anyone who's read the original diary knows that Anne did a bit of unconscious Hollywoodizing herself.
Anyone who has tried to keep a food diary knows how difficult it is to remember every morsel consumed: from office biscuits to the kids' leftovers.
My diary knows and is allowed to though.
Among longtime Web surfers, personal online diaries, known as Weblogs or blogs, are often cited as the last bastion of interesting material.
Correction: October 3, 2003, Friday An article in Business Day on Monday about the role of editing in the online diaries known as Web logs, or blogs, referred imprecisely to Tony Marcano, ombudsman at The Sacramento Bee, who made public a recent decision by editors to screen a columnist's blog entries.
In the portion of his diaries known as "Detached Thoughts" Byron pondered the origin of life, saying "but even then this higher pre-Adamite Supposititious Creation must have had an Origin and a Creator – for a Creator is a more natural imagination than a fortuitous concourse of atoms – all things remount to a fountain – though they may flow to an Ocean" (Byron 1979).
In person, it took me 20 minutes to work up the nerve to explain that I had read her diaries, knew all her secrets and, with her permission, wanted to publish a biography about her that would reveal everything.
