domingo, setembro 14, 2003
Um homem com qualidades
Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.
After four years of cutting up it gives me the opportunity to find back the intellectual developement which I think is mine.
I will attempt to reach for the "banners of a never fought battle". The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
Personal notes I will not, or only seldom, make, and only then when I believe that it will be of philosophical interest to me to remember them.
All thoughts concerning the 'science of man' must be written down in it. Not the philosophical. Drafts. Now and then a poem that seems worth remembering. Absolute expressions. This being the matter with style. Not only attention on what one says, but also on how it is said. Find a style that is mine. So far I tried to say the unsayable with direct words. This points to a one-directional intellect. The will to turn expression int an instrument for myself should be at the beginning of this 'cahier'.
Robert Musil escrevia assim, em 1905, as intenções dos seus diários.
Para quem quiser conhecer melhor o escritor, há uma boa notícia aqui