Hopkins’s 1866–1875 Journal, almost daily in some phases, begins and continues with a rhythm of one-line, telegraphic entries without any comments, alternating with much longer and much more detailed ones. In the former case the reader often speculates why Hopkins makes an assertion and above all what he implies by making it. Entries sometimes border on the riddle. But far from being casual and non-committal, these skeletal headlines conceal and therefore reveal heartfelt involvement.