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[[strikethrough]]WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1936[[/strikethrough]] 50th Day 316 Days to come Cont world, where one really gets to know people. No qualities of knowledge or sensitivity or deep thinking cannot at all count at all the way they do at home. Good dispositions & simplicity & honesty & charm & humor & good sportsmanship are what count, & after all these are the fundamental virtues of character that should count. Things must roll off one's back like [[strikethrough]]duck of [[/strikethrough]] water off a duck's back, & pride should be blown to the winds,& confidence & health are all important, & harmonizing with the others to the point of disintegrating one's personal feelings are what count.Imagined feelings, & doubt & wonder about the world in general have no place here, & after all [[strikethrough]]it[[strikethrough]] doesn't all that make this place [[strikethrough]]a[[/strikethrough]] the best situation for judging people for the really sterling qualities? I suppose they are more masculine than feminine qualities, but it amazes me how all these girls come up to this criterion, & how I fall short of it. It shows how hopelessly superficial the qualities are judges people by at home are. One [[strikethrough]]THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1936[[/strikethrough]] 51st Day 315 Days to come Cont simply sees someone, & labels them a type, & dismisses them without ever knowing how they would stand up at close quarters at the end of weeks of this life. For instance Hannah at home would seem like an insensitive dumb naive [[strikethrough]]g[[/strikethrough]] school girl type [[strikethrough]]while here[[/strikethrough]] with no depth or knowledge or beauty or imagination, while here one sees only her good disposition & good sportsmanship & friendliness & joie de vie & general sweetness & ambition & fight in skiing. All her lacks are an advantage & all her simple qualities [[strikethrough]]shine[[strikethrough]] & lack of temperament shine. I admit that the qualities necessary here are more animal ones, & the other qualities that are a disadvantage here are the essence of the differences between animals & people, [[strikethrough]]b they one are[[/strikethrough]] It is the individual versus the group psychology, & I begin to value the latter more & more, probably because I have much too much of the former. The people I know in N.Y. are mere acquaintances, while the ones I know here [[strikethrough]]are[[/strikethrough]] I really know. Alice has both types of qualities.
