Monday December 11, 1972

If I could close my hand over this experience, capture it like a caterpillar or a grasshopper in a bottle, preserve it, its reality; useless to change it, one does not aspire to govern life, only to convey is accurately– accurately, but that is the problem, I will get nothing accurate, the picture blurred, lifeless. How to garner up events and person and atmosphere I do not myself understand, am overpowered by? - Sita, by Kate Millet