February 27.
The consonance of what is said with what is thought.
March 7.
Artificial night. Artificial nights that some writers create for themselves to give their surfaces an air of depth and more brilliance to their feeble lights.
That is to say, one must love God’s gifts and his refusals, love what he wills and what he does not will — as willed or not willed by him.
[…]imanche , March 12.
“Time.” Time! Yes, “we conceive it as a [movement] of eternity.” (Fabr. d’Ol.) Eternity stirred, and it [produced] M. N.
Civilization, a great word that is abused. It is what makes civil. There is civilization, then, through religion, through modesty, benevolence, justice; for all this unites men.
Uncivilization and return to barbarism, through the spirit of contention, irreligion, imprudence, audacity, the ambition of all, constant love of one’s well-being, ardor for gain, etc. For all this disunites us from others and attaches each to himself.
March 17.
— The object and its phantom must agree to produce such effects.
April 21.
Las Cazes. A perpetual need to honor himself in his own eyes.
— My hair hurts my head. In what sense? And how.
April 25.
Error proves talent, from the school.
April 29.
Delle and splendidly I mark far too often, (from Cicero).
May 3.
My heart said to you: I have sought your face; your face, Lord, I shall seek, (Ps., intr.) Do not turn your face away, etc. Your face, Lord, I shall seek, etc. To see God as if from behind; what that is, etc.
May 6.
To seek and seek out. Yes, but it is the recherché air they seek. They would be irreproachable and praiseworthy if they sought and sought out the natural, or rather if they knew how to wait for it, firmly resolved to be content with it alone.
T13. The nominal fragment and said/thought relation remain; the auditory metaphor is not flattened to simple agreement.
T94. The complete 27 and nominal fragment remain. Both ce qui est constructions and the final period are retained; no governing verb is supplied. All text is roman.
T14. The repeated singular/plural night, reflexive creation, surfaces/depth contrast and more/feeble relation remain. The fragment is not supplied with a main verb. Écrivains is complete across the ordinary line wrap. The faint separate stroke above Des is not assigned an origin or treated as a source letter or punctuation mark.
T95. The complete 7, singular/plural night and subjectless nominal opening remain. Écri-/vains is a complete ordinary wrap. The faint separate oblique stroke above Des has no claimed origin and introduces no source letter or punctuation. The reflexive construction, both purposes, more and weak lights remain. All final right-edge contours are identifiable and the paragraph is roman.
T15. The explanatory opening, necessity, repeated love, gifts/refusals and repeated willing/not-willing remain. No implication of approval of particular actions is supplied.
S1. Source editor’s annotation Fabre d’Olivet.
T16. The quoted word, exclamation, second quotation and abrupt personified production remain. [Movement] and [produced] are broad contextual counterparts of mou[…]ement and pro[…]uisit ; the surviving letters remain in French, and the missing v/d are not certified. Fabr. d’Ol. stays abbreviated, with the source editor’s separate expansion retained in the apparatus; M. N. remains opaque. The weekday retains only […]imanche with an incomplete initial contour, while 12 mars is complete; no calendar correction is made. English capitalizes Yes, omits the comma after concevons and supplies the comma before and. The first quoted period is already inside its closing mark in French; only the second is moved inside in English.
T29. The source editor’s name expansion remains a separate annotation attached to Fabr. d’Ol.; it does not expand the distinct opaque M. N. in the body. Its call follows the complete parenthetic (Fabr. d’Ol.) cue, before the next sentence; the annotation remains roman with its terminal period.
T97. The weekday retains imanche but only the right curved part of its initial; no complete D is certified. The printed 12 and mars are complete, and the weekday/day relationship is not repaired from a calendar. After the ordinary mou- wrap only ement is certified, and after pro- only uisit is certified. The missing v/d -like beginnings are not supplied from context: original-size color and native 443 show incomplete foreground components among show-through. Both losses are explicit. In the French source, the first quotation period is inside its closing guillemet; the second lies outside. The French comma after concevons and lower-case oui remain. The raised call 1 follows the complete parenthetic Fabr. d’Ol. cue and precedes L’éternité . Opaque M. N. is unexpanded; the separate apparatus identifies only the abbreviated named cue. All text is roman.
T17. The shared civil root, inferential then, all four means and uniting remain. The incomplete nominal opening and makes civil are not expanded into a sociological definition.
T18. The unusual uncivilization preserves incivilisation . Every item, all/constant, disuniting and self-attachment remain; no complete predicate is supplied to the initial list. Imprudence follows literal imprudence , whose r is retained in the canonical reading; it is not silently replaced with impudence. The readable color contours at the worn line openings and complete ordinary wraps do not create additional reproduction gaps.
T19. The initial dash, necessity, shared agreement, phantom and unspecified such effects remain without an invented antecedent. French retains literal phantôme . The complete March 17 date and complete wrapped tels remain; no additional lexical loss is asserted.
T20. The name retains literal Las Cazes. Perpetual, reflexive himself and own eyes remain within the nominal fragment; no biographical identification is supplied. The complete April 21 date is retained.
T101. The complete 21, literal Las Cazes, independent nominal second fragment and repeated self-reference remain. Yeux is complete at the next-line opening. No name spelling is modernized; all text is roman.
T21. The first-person oddity, initial dash, question and final period remain. No diagnosis, quotation speaker or implied date is added. English capitalizes And after the question mark.
T102. The initial dash, question mark after sens , lower-case et and terminal period after comment are printed. No second question mark is substituted. This undated one-paragraph fragment remains roman.
T22. The Latin Error ingenium probat is freshly translated; talent is provisional for ingenium ’s natural capacity. The following de l’école remains a separate attribution fragment, without identifying a school or silently making it the possessor of talent. “Error proves talent,” is italic through its comma, corresponding to “Error ingenium probat, ”; the following attribution and its period are roman. The complete April 25 reading remains qualified by the worn reproduction without an invented preceding digit.
T103. Both date digits are identifiable in original-size color despite left-margin abrasion; no preceding digit is inferred. In the French source, the Latin opening through its comma is italic; de l’école. is roman. The literal wording is retained without an external-source repair.
T23. The anomalous Delle is retained without silent correction to Belle . The rest is a fresh provisional rendering of et præclare nimium sæpe noto . A close parallel occurs in Cicero, De oratore III.101, with the praise expressions bene et praeclare and belle et festive , and nolo in the latter clause. The notebook instead prints Delle , præclare and noto . It is not an exact quotation of that passage; no parallel wording has been substituted. Delle remains unresolved, and I mark provisionally translates literal noto . A metalinguistic reading of the opening terms is plausible, not certain. Canonical color/native collation retains literal Delle and noto , without thereby settling the intended wording. “Delle ” and “splendidly I mark far too often,” are two separate italic English spans, corresponding to “Delle ” and “præclare nimium sæpe noto, ”; intervening “and” and the complete parenthetic attribution with its following period remain roman. April 29 is complete.
T104. The complete 29, initial D of Delle and final noto are directly supported by original-size color and native 443. Delle is not replaced by Belle , and noto is not replaced by nolo from a parallel. Both æ ligatures and the comma before the attribution remain. In the French source, Delle and præclare nimium sæpe noto, are separate italic spans. The intervening et and complete parenthetic de Cicéron with following period are roman.
T24. All three Latin spans are translated freshly, preserving perfect/future/negative imperative, repeated face, Lord, and the source’s punctuation and abbreviated cue. No published Bible translation or expanded intr. identification is used. The final French nominal speculation and repeated etc. remain. Each of the three translated Latin spans is italic through its terminal comma. The parenthetic Ps., intr. , all three etc. tokens and the final French comment’s English counterpart remain roman. English Lord capitalizes the source’s lower-case domine ; the repeated face is not varied. May 3 is complete.
T25. Seek/seek out preserves the repeated chercher/rechercher distinction; recherché retains the related English adjective for studied refinement and keeps the wordplay partly audible. The conditional praise, corrective or-rather, waiting and exclusive alone remain. No object beyond the natural is supplied. French retains literal scavoient ; the complete ordinary wraps do not create new gaps. Recherché is roman in both languages. The complete May 6 date remains.