Vidal Gore — Eighteen Seventy [1634]

Events are moving so rapidly that I have become a sort of writing machine into which Nordhoff pours whatever information I need. He is most generous. But then he is writing every day, while I write, thank God, only once a week. — Vidal Gore, Eighteen Seventy, 1634

Note

The contrast between the frenetic pace of events and the author’s writing schedule humorously highlights the whirlwind of political intrigue and the pressure on the narrator to distill complex happenings into writing.