12.29.09
St Louis Escorts: The art of diary writing
Even within some diaries there are such devices. An apparently impenetrable table of numbers and country names in the back of one of Godfrey Williams’ early diaries turned out to be a catalogue of his stamp collection. One of Finkel’s other acquisitions is the wartime diary of a schoolgirl that was split between teenage reminiscences in English, and lengthy passages in a substitution code. A linguist by trade, Finkel saw it as a point of honour to break the code, and found that “those sections were about her mother being a part-time prostitute and having clients come to the house. It’s heartbreaking … In some respect, the diary provides a rescue corner for the human spirit.” Says Brown: “Re-reading an old diary is a good way to remember that if you’re having a hard time, you’ve had hard times before and got through them.”
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