Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 6/12/10: Those journals are bitchy, and they're mean.

Jacob Lawrence, "Interior Scene" (1937) — Jacob Lawrence, *Interior Scene* (1937)

June 12, 2010:

Those journals are bitchy, and they're mean. They complain and they put people down.

I understand. The goal was to be "critical", in Marx's sense. A ruthless critique of everything existing. But it was unskilled, and the naive language of that groping was inevitably that of everyday snittiness.

I don't think I ever was that person. But I certainly sounded like him.