Little is known about what he wrote for the department, as most of its records were destroyed after the war, but he noted in his diary that he had written the department's official report to the War Cabinet: "a beastly job – the worst I've ever attempted".
The first is to notice where your own thoughts and experiences coincide with Knausgaard's — to find, as many readers have, that he has written the diary that you would've written, were you a Norwegian man born in 1968.
It's too bad that the title "The Nanny Diaries" has been taken, because that's what Ms. Ramirez has written.
A group of passengers had set up a domed tent on the ice, with chairs and mats inside, to do readings from diaries and articles that they had written over the course of the recent weeks, their thoughts and reflections of Antarctica.
Elisa herself recalls a former Bletchley intelligence officer telling her that Anne "had written some very interesting diaries".
In his diary, he had written, "Just pray going North is that much easier".
For all that has been written about Tony Blair's government, there are surprisingly few contemporaneous diaries.
In his diary, he had written, "Never, ever give in".
In their diary for that day they had written one word: "Depart".
He now has the satisfaction of having written a diary that tells us almost as much about British politics as that great television series, "Yes Minister".
