03.24.07
The Essays: Twenty-Fifth Post (Enthusiasm)
Pitcher’s notes at the end of the book show a lot of passion for his subject. He rather meticulously lays out multiple versions of the same essays in parallel columns to show how Bacon’s editing process worked, as far as can be seen today, and he gushes over a set of notes for what might have been another essay that never got written. His enthusiasm is wonderful, but it does little to make his writing less dry!