Yes I have kept all my scraps notes -well one day my heirs will be able to
sell them for millions -and also I like to look back how the little buggers
started developed or not
Fortunately even my roughs are brilliant so no problem( :-) )
Ps most of my work has been posthumous anyway
P modest P
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Subject: Destroying preparatory work (was Re: Inspiration)
Doug B says
> As I recall, Eliot made the same point, & then was careful to have all
>
> the preparatory work destroyed so that no one could put together a
> posthumous collection of his rejects.
Good for him! I've always thought I should do that. The "rejects"
and warmups aren't good enough for publication... although I suppose
they might be of academic interest someday if anyone should decide
I'm worth studying <lol>
Hmm, perhaps it's more that I wouldn't want people to know what
I was thinking!
Yet I still have all my old notes. What has prevented me so far
is that I like to look over them myself from time to time,
to see where I was at.
Where are those matches?
Janet
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Poems at Proximity:
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