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...always been a poetry buff, McCarthy only began writing his own about four years ago, as a "kind of escape." He will scribble a few lines in longhand at odd moments in planes or hotel rooms, then type them out at home and file them away in a looseleaf notebook. Knocking on McCarthy's door during this year's presidential campaign, Paul Gorman, one of his speechwriters, found that the candidate was too busy to talk. With a book entitled Mammals of North America in front of him, the Senator was writing a poem called Wolverines...
...tides. While the dissemination of information in any other course is cyclical, some parts being decidedly less irrelevant than others, Chem 20 ebbs and flows at perpetual middle tide. It make sense to record all or nothing. For the conscientious student, Chem 20 is the university's only three-notebook course. For others Chem 20 turns into a seance. They stare entranced at the C's, O's, H's, and N's and wait for some mystical finger to arrange them in a more significant pattern...
...Boston Globe's stream-of-consciousness writer roamed around the hall without a notebook...
...Globe's news reporter sat up front with the TV-men, huddled over his notebook. A secret serviceman stopped a boy carrying a canvas bag at the front door. The bag was full of dirty laundry...
...with notes that Lowry, an inveterate journal keeper, took during a trip to Mexico in late 1945 and early 1946. "By God, we have a novel here!" Lowry cried on first rereading them. Editor Day more accurately describes Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid as "a notebook on its way to becoming a novel." Yet this fragmented, compulsively self-centered, brilliant half book does not at all misrepresent its author. For Lowry was less a novelist than, in Day's words, "a diarist, compulsive notetaker, poet manqué, alcoholic, philosophizing rambler." Writing...