TO THREE PROSATEURSLOTI, BLANCO-FOMBONA, D’ANNUNZIO
The Taste of Honeyis a genuine diary, of somewhat the same kind asDe Vigny’s Journal d’un Poète,orDiary of a Kentish Gentleman,in that it was not written for public approval, but for personal pleasure. It is not dated nor arranged in order, partly because it was jotted down upon loose leaves which were threaded upon a string; partly because of the period of years covered and the vicissitudes that befall perishable substances such as paper.
Part was written at the age of sixteen, eighteen; part recently. Many pages have been lost; indeed as recently as the spring of 1928 a manuscript of over three hundred pages disappeared from the office of a New York magazine. Some notes from this are included however.
Selections from the Note Book have been published, in both French and English, Le Disque Vertof Belgium carried pages, when Hellens was director. American papers have carried other pages.
It has not been edited nor changed for publication. It is the unreserved expression of what was in the reader’s mind, set down with malice toward none and always with sincerity.