Pikle - Journal

THE DIARIES OF PAUL K LYONS

JOURNAL - 1974

1974 was the year I began keeping a regular journal. I left home in June that year to travel. My journey took me across Asia. I arrived in Darwin in December, just in time for Cyclone Tracy.

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Sep Oct Nov Dec

I wrote my journal entries in a desk diary, which allowed me half a page for each day (but many entries are extended with continuations on blank pages in the earlier part of the diary). The hand-writing is cramped, and nearly illegible at times, and the writing itself shows little attention to grammar or structure. I have, however, tidied up the grammar slightly. (In particular, the journal now reads as though it was all written in the present tense. It wasn't. It was written in a jumble of the present and the past, without any consistency. This may be because, at the time, I tried to write each entry as though it were being recorded on the specific journal date, even if, in reality, that day had passed by some time ago.)

Paul K. Lyons