I bought these diaries at the Village Book Store in the Emory Village in 1977. I am glad I did, because they would probably have burned with the store burned. As a diarist myself there is so much here.It is so beautifully written.
A few quotes I underlined
"Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the hihgh moments I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous" p; 5
and
Dear diary, you have hampered me as an artist. But at the same time you have kept me alive as a human being. I created you because I needed a friend. And talking to this friend I have perhaps wasted my life." p. 260
No, you have not dear author. You have written essays, not common diary entries of comings and goings, meals, travels.