When inspiration strikes, writers, musicians and scientists turn to the page
NEATLY HANDWRITTEN, with a simple diagram below a numbered list, the sheet looks like any fussy hobbyist’s record of some cranky project in a garden shed. This, though, is a page taken from a hospital bacteriologist’s lab notebooks in December 1928. A few weeks previously, the researcher had found by chance that a common-as-muck fungus had contaminated his experiment but seemed to be purging bacteria.
Across the arts and sciences, the notebooks of the great can transport the reader to the front-lines of innovation; they offer an intimacy not found in other versions of their work. From the flood of inspiration and speculation that flows over 13,000 pages of mirror-writing in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks to the weather-battered logs that accompanied Ernest Hemingway on the adventures that fuelled his fiction, the spontaneous note is the seed of genius.
Notebooks have hosted the rough drafts of successive intellectual revolutions. No surprise, then, that wannabe innovators should seek to capture the magic of the breakthrough in a pocket companion. Any smart bookshop will sell you a Moleskine notebook, allegedly the trusty standby of giants such as Hemingway and Picasso.
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