https://www.notesonattentionpaid.com/categories/michael-delanoy/ en Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:54:01 -0700 https://www.notesonattentionpaid.com/2021/10/21/denton-welch-the.html Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:54:01 -0700 http://mbkriegh.micro.blog/2021/10/21/denton-welch-the.html <p>… read the the jacket flaps… read a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denton_Welch_Journals" title="The Journals of Denton Welch, Wikipedia">wikipedia article</a> discussing the varying editions… i have the 1984 edition which is expanded but noted as having several misprints and misreadings…</p> <p>… as i turn to the introduction by Michael De-la-noy, i take note of the small type and the length of the book, 371 pages… this will take some time…</p> <p>… astoundingly, i learn he could not read until the age of 9, but traveled far and wide with his mother… his family was well off…</p> <p><em>He was, as Edith Sitwell never tired of telling him, a born writer, and everything he wrote was written after he was condemned to death.</em><sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup></p> <p>… just finished De-la-noy’s introduction… i am certain i will enjoy the journals…</p> <section class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes"> <hr> <ol> <li id="fn:1" role="doc-endnote"> <p>De-la-noy, Michael, The Journals of Denton Welch, p ix&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p> </li> </ol> </section>