I’m working on the seventh chapter of my forthcoming book. It has a quotation by George MacDonald and two quotations by Soren Kierkergaard. I’m pretty sure the book has a second chapter too. As to the rest, I have no idea. It is going to be a work of nonfiction, unless, for some reason, it gets embellished. When I have a better idea what the book is going to be about I am going to try to publish some of the chapters and then query a publisher or and agent to get me a contract. Once that is all settled and I have my advance, I am going to find a place where I can live with my wife in a little garret over a garage or something. There we are going to live very frugally and happily, and I will write my forthcoming book. Simple but tasteful curtains will flutter at the window, we will not have many chairs, only a plain table, all the books, and perhaps a few other things.

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Since I have these two wonderful quotations by Soren Kierkergaard and the only thing of his I’ve read is the Diary of a Seducer, I am reading more of his stuff in an attempt to get a better feel for the way he thought lest I be found using these two contextless quotations from his early journals to do something he may not have intended.

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Of course, my real dream is to be supported by my wife so I can write all the time, but that is looking increasingly impossible as she cannot seem to keep a job. I probably need to cash in all the savings I have and take the plunge. If only I could get the Chronicles of Fundamentarlia finished, I could really cash in on that. I think I’ve conceived of two of the three major strands of the plot. I might have the third and then I’ll just need to watch all three burn down till like fuses they meet the grand finale. What I probably ought to do, should the inspiration strike me some Friday in the evening, is provide a summary of the situation to this point as I’m sure without it people are probably having a hard time keeping up with all the subtleties in the occasional installments I keep offering.