• • MOST of us experimented with it as adolescents. A few of us liked to pose around cafés and campuses doing it when we were students. For some, it is very much a closet activity, to be done in the privacy of their own homes, when no one else is about. Others like nothing better than to circulate highlights among friends and family, maybe via letters, e-mails, or on websites. What am I talking about? Diary-keeping!
• • Over the years, many have heeded the witty advice proffered by queen of the one-liners Mae West: "Keep a diary and some day it'll keep you". It seems unlikely that Mae West followed her own advice: it is more probable that she subscribed to the view of fellow hellraiser Tallulah Bankhead that "only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time."
• • Unless, of course, the bad girls have a cunning plan. Nanny Daisy Wright sold her diary to a tabloid after it emerged that she had recorded in it details of an affair with her boss, movie star Jude Law.
• • Among those who have heeded Mae West's advice and cashed in their diaries for places on the bestsellers lists are politicians Robin Cook, Edwina Currie, Tony Benn, Jeffrey Archer, and Alan Clark. The estates of Noel Coward, comedian Kenneth Williams, and rock star Kurt Cobain have all benefited from the posthumous publication of their diaries.
• • However, it's not only the cynical who have reservations about diaries and diarists. Academics and professional therapists have expressed concern about the effect that such introspection can have on people, especially those prone to depression. ...
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• • Source: The Scotsman [UK]
• • Byline: Alison Kerr
• • Published on: 6 January 2007
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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