I’m not shy about my love of words, letters, and even whole sentences. So imagine my excitement when I stumbled upon a truly impressive feat of cultural curation over at Flavorwire awhile ago that showcases the silly scribbles of famous scribes.
You can spy on the doodles of such literary heavyweights as Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Franz Kafka, Mark Twain, Henry Miller, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Jorge Luis Borges, and David Foster Wallace.
There is just something about the unfinished thought manifest on paper for future people to see that gets me all worked up. As one of these future people, I have lingered long over the scraps of great minds that I have found in private papers made public in various museum exhibits of doodle-craft. In fact, I have perused so many secret documents that is has begun to color my own journal entries.
The pureness of my private space has been broken into by my imagining (as many hopeful writers do, perhaps against all odds) the prying eyes of my own future public. I strongly recommend that you take your own prying eyes on a journey over to Flavorwire and feast them on this compelling collection of sketches.
A doodle brought to you by Vladimir Nabokov