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January 24.
In a work and in its style: the art of glossing over its faults and disguising them from oneself; that is what becomes impossible with great attention.
The dewdrop and the diamond: colors and dew play in both.
— Like those dark clouds I have seen edged with light.
January 25.
Adorned brevity.
LL [Delalot]. He has a [ ] mind and a snarling probity.
Those times when minds sink too deeply or penetrate too far into what they think.
When the author speaks to himself instead of speaking to the reader.
January 26.
Prose has its constraints as well as its freedoms.
January 27.
Yes, in this century we all have the fault of sinking too far into what we think, and so much the worse for those who did not have it, for they would be ignorant of many things the others would know. But if this fault may show itself in what one thinks, it must be carefully hidden in everything one says. Language must not bear its effects.
[Charlatans]. They took their pomp from polished peoples and their austerities from barbarians. (See Tacitus’s Velléda and her high tower.)
January […]8.
Strokes? Yes. Many strokes. When they serve only brilliance, they must be excluded. But one needs them to paint. And those must be sought. They abbreviate.
Everything exact is short.
One can paint a whole face (with strokes) in a space no wider than a fingernail. To describe it in phrases would take a whole page, and even then one would not manage to give an exact idea of it.