Anxiety disorder

All the morning sitting at the office, and then to dinner with my wife, and so to the office again (where a good while Mr. Bland was with me, telling me very fine things in merchandize, which, but that the trouble of my office do so cruelly hinder me, I would take some pains in) till late at night. Towards the evening I, as I have done for three or four nights, studying something of Arithmetique, which do please me well to see myself come forward. So home, to supper, and to bed.

all morning sitting with the bland
merchandise of night

I study arithmetic to see myself


Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 11 November 1662.

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