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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
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W. N. P. Barbellion
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Such
is
what
we
have
here.
It
will
be
going
beyond
the
necessities
of
this
preface
to
expatiate
upon
a
certain
thread
of
unpremeditated
and
exquisite
beauty
that
runs
through
the
story
this
diary
tells.
To
all
sensitive
readers
it
will
be
plain
enough,
and
those
who
cannot
see
it
plain
do
not
deserve
to
have
it
underlined
for
them,
that,
still
unseeing,
they
may
pretend
to
see.
Nor
need
we
dilate
upon
the
development
of
the
quality
of
this
diary
from
the
rather
fussy
egotism
of
the
earlier
half.
But
it
may
be
well
to
add
a
few
explanatory
facts
that
the
opening
chapters
rather
take
for
granted.
Barbellion
began
life
at
a
material
as
well
as
a
physical
disadvantage;
neither
of
his
parents
were
sturdy
people,
his
mother
died
at
last
of
constitutional
heart
weakness,
and
his
father
belonged
to
that
most
unfortunate
class,
the
poor
educated,
who
live
lives
of
worry
in
straitened
circumstances.
Barbellion's
father
was
a
newspaper
reporter
in
a
west
country
town,
his
income
rarely
exceeded
a
couple
of
hundred
pounds
a
year;
the
educational
facilities
of
the
place
were
poor,
and
young
Barbellion
had
to
get
such
learning
as
he
could
as
a
day
boy
at
a
small
private
school,
his
father
supplementing
this
meagre
training
and
presently
taking
him
on
as
an
apprentice
reporter.
How
the
passion
for
natural
science
arose
does
not
appear
in
this
diary;
we
already
find
the
naturalist
formed
in
the
first
schoolboy
entries.
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