"Part of the atraction of the L.R. is I think due to the glimpses of a large history in the background; an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist. To go there is to destroy the magic, unless new, unattainable vistas are again revealed."
This quote from Tolkien (via Shippey) expresses something that I need to try for in this diary. It is the idea of pushing beyond the mundane, and not ony achieving something out of the ordinary, but of revealing thereby some new, unattainable vision in the distance. A diary like this must not only drive self-transformation, it must reveal new realms of possibility that this opens up. It must become something like Sigfried's Rhine Journey, moving along new roads and fields, but also showing glimpses of castles and towns on the heights. It must not only take the reader to a far country: it must show it must show the towers of the Hidden City beyond.
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