In the evening I started putting down some jottings for an article that I'm writing on the skin bleaching problem that we have here. |
Less than 200 pages long, the book is peppered with monochromatic reproductions of old photographs and John's paintings, drawings and jottings. |
Separately and together they wrote many books, mainly set in Ireland, as well as many articles, letters, diaries, and jottings. |
It sometimes reads like the most self-indulgent and maundering commonplace book, pregnant with ideas and jottings, their author unwilling or unable to develop them cogently. |
The reader is not supposed to have to divine the meaning that lies behind the ramblings and jottings of the writer. |
He seems to have preserved every draft, complete or not, bits of juvenilia, jottings, letters sent and received. |