Tuesday, July 5, 1994

Woolton Trip

I’m writing these couple of lines before leaving for Woolston to meet Cecily Cardew. Before getting into this I’m glad to announce to you that I finally was able to declare my love to Miss Fairfax. Unfortunately it turned out to be much more complicated that it looked. I had to answer far too many ridiculous questions about myself. In fact, Gwendolen's ‘’mamma’’ which I decently call a Gorgon (still have just no clue what on earth a Gorgon is but, in any case, that quite suits her) asked me tons of questions for her to see if I was eligible on her list of suitors for Gwendolen…what a Gorgon! Finally, I will hurry to Woolton. I have important things to do there: I will publicly announce the death of Ernest. I’ll tell everyone he died in Paris from a severe chill, I just hope that Algy was right and that a chill is not hereditary or anything of that sort!! Hopefully Cecily will get over my death quickly…or the death of my brother…Ernest's death…assuming that I’m not Ernest for real…ok that is just getting way too complicated. I've got to go to Woolston. Talk to you soon dear Diary...

Friday, July 1, 1994

algernon diary

Dear diary,

Does anyone really know who Ernest is? I think that I could transform myself into Ernest so I could charm Cecily, my love. I think I will charm her enough so maybe our relationship will turn into love eventually. One of the problems is that I will have since Ernest and jack are brothers is that they are cousins with Cecily. Now if I want to approach her I need to act as if I were her cousin. Acting like a cousin will be hard since inside of me I know that I am not her real cousin. Anyways, maybe I should bring her some flowers, maybe it will put her in a positive way toward what she is thinking of me, but at the same time it could look like some love between cousins and I wonder what she would think of that. I wonder how Ernest acts, even if no one knows him. Love is always hard to explain even when you are not in the character, but I hope that it will work out between her and me. Dear diary I need to go now I will meet my dear love, alias my cousin. My dear friend bunbury made me get rid of taking tea with my aunt so i could go and have a chat with Cecily.

Gwendolen journal

Dear journal,

Today, I decided to go to the mansion of my beloved Ernest to surprise him. I was not able to sustain my joy of seeing him again because yesterday, he asked me to marry him. When I arrived at his mansion, I met Cecily. At first, she seemed to be a very nice woman. After a long discussion in the sumptuous garden, it turned out that we were both engaged to the same man, who was Ernest. After this shocking news, I became mistrustful to her because I was thinking that she was stealing my man. Soon, we discovered the little trick the two men were playing on us. Cecily and I were totally crushed and stopped being distrustful about each other and became very bests friends, because we had to support each other emotionally after this. It will take time before I’ll be able to see this man again because of his duplicity and the silly trick about Ernest. Maybe one day, I will feel something again for Jack, or whoever he is.