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I had a task during World War I of being secret aide to the admiral in command of the cruiser transports that carried the troops across the Atlantic and I had all the secret records of all the movements of all the ships and all the people who were on them. And when the war was over I had the task of putting those into shape for the official records for the U.S. Navy. The kind of record keeping we had to keep was chronolog-ical; I thought it was quite interesting that my experience before the Navy was that people kept kind of static kinds of files in terms of names and topics, but in the Navy important records were kept chronologically. I thought it might be interesting if I took my own private papers concerning the troubles I had had at Harvard, and everything, not just culling out the attractive aspects of my life, but really keeping the whole record-- most of which was not so attractive-- and putting it all into chronological order. I did so; and I asked my mother for any papers she had regarding me and I put them all into order.
If somebody kept a very accurate record of a human being, going through the era from the Gay’90’s, from a very different
