The literary miscellany consists of random jottings by the yangban on four broad topics: history, biography, autobiography, and poetic criticism.
His workshop drawings and jottings, unlike his finished sculpture, approached abstraction.
When looking at such archives, it is also important to point out, as has been emphasised, that they are notes and jottings; they are not prime sources.
Stylistically, the discourse veers abruptly from passages of sublime purple prose to crabbed note-book jottings.
It is a meditation on faith and religion through three interlinked stories, which are told by means of letters, jottings, flashbacks, poetry and puzzles.
He would fill notebooks with jottings while watching films in theaters, and would carry a hand mirror with him wherever he went to practice facial expressions.
Mascuch argues that ' we can observe the stirrings of a personal voice and an individual self-identity ' in these regular jottings (p. 96).
One sample of his authentic jottings is this passage contributed by a man reporting for help at sick call.