April 14, 1936 - July 2, 1938
Handmade volume with cardboard covers, unlined paper
9 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches
ditto above- the underscoring is mine)
August 29, 1936- (Saturday)
“A man cannot deal in a thing until it is created, and many people think that everything was first made by art. We say that the flying machine was invented by Langley and the Wrights, but we forget the Greek who conceived and wrote the Fable of Icarus. ---------. I wonder if Icarus had not been dreamed whether Lindbergh would have ever flown.” (from- ditto)
Also this-
“It is pleasanter to be choked to death with a silver spoon than it is to die of hunger, but the spoon will produce just as complete a death.”
September 12, 1936- (Saturday)
Played the Sibelius Third tonight. In the latter part of the last movement, when he gets such a terrific bedlam going, (when you feel that gigantic forces of nature are engaged in a death struggle) you wonder how can he (Sibelius) possibly bring it all to a reasonable conclusion - end it with honor as it were - But he does with their powerful notes, like the blows of a huge hammer - a God pounding