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| | TIME.com: And So to Press -- Mar. 3, 1975 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Samuel Pepys, the diarist's diarist, ran this second risk. |
 | | It is as if, at this late stage in the Pepys-watching game, the diarist has become his own literary character whom biographers must attack or defend according to their tastes and their times. |
 | | To 19th century moralists, for instance, Pepys was that most off-putting of hypocrites: a pious lecher a Uriah Heep who could preach sanctimoniously to a fellow tomcat while he himself was goatishly seducing pretty Mrs. |
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