I can see, he said, that you are about to make obvious remarks.
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)