There is also something aggressive and hostile in the repetition of this “me.” Fuck you, it says. You can believe what you want. Here, I, and only I, prevail. “Me” completely on its own is anonymous, neutral, and without character. Repeated four times it becomes a literary and social program, since after having read the first four diary entries, one understands that this is a me in opposition to the social world, which it considers to be hypocritical and insincere, unlike its writing, which aspires toward that which is true and sincere by sticking to its own, which is to say the me that opens
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