Journal Interruptus. Robert Roth
Robert Roth photo by Armando Mejia Once while sitting in a park writing in my journal I thought if I lost this journal and someone found it what an interesting experience it would be for them to read it. And for the next number of months I continued writing in it with the thought of that person finding it. It was fun. The words came very easily. There was hardly a word or sentence I had to change. It was quite a document. Other times I’ve written in my journal and I can barely read my own hand writing. My thoughts running way ahead of my hand. I’m not yet inside my own thoughts. And if anyone would find that journal they would not be able to make heads or tails out of it. Recently in the news I’ve read various situations where police have confiscated diaries, retrieved correspondences from computers, raided personal web sites and have used the words they discovered to both arrest and prosecute people. To think that the state can invade the most perso...