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Words of Annihilation

To acquaint myself with writing a diary, I studied literary examples: The Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of Jean-Jacque Rousseau. Many autobiographies are confessions. I read also Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground, Nabokov’s Lolita, Confession of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir, Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. I explored erotic confessions: I read Casanova’s autobiography and Catherine Millet’s memoir, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., The Surrender by Toni Bentley.