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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s

Page 115

With all the artificiality -- the putting on of a good front -- keeping up with the Jones,
There is something wonderfully nice about the simplicity of living in a mountain cabin. You move into clean quarters and adjust yourself to convenient homely [illegible] by four. When you get kind of the novelty you pack up and move me. Any sweeping that is done isn't checked to my credit. This is not because I like to live uncleanly but because the bother of thinking about being dusted and being proper in life gets to be too much effort and a bore. Sometimes it seems so irrelevant this much happens and satisfactory to forget all this routines of the wall and he engaged in more pleasant and inspiring ideas and work. Which all significantly goes to show that the business of life gets into the way of living. It cloys the cogs that make the wheels spin.

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With all the artificiality -- the putting on of a good front -- keeping up with the Jones, There is something wonderfully nice about the simplicity of living in a mountain cabin. You move into clean quarters and adjust yourself to convenient homely [illegible] by four. When you get kind of the novelty you pack up and move me. Any sweeping that is done isn't checked to my credit. This is not because I like to live uncleanly but because the bother of thinking about being dusted and being proper in life gets to be too much effort and a bore. Sometimes it seems so irrelevant this much happens and satisfactory to forget all this routines of the wall and he engaged in more pleasant and inspiring ideas and work. Which all significantly goes to show that the business of life gets into the way of living. It cloys the cogs that make the wheels spin.