The spirit, wearing wolf skins and an eagle's mask, had read to him a kind of autobiographical fragment.
Twenty years later, he wrote, in an autobiographical fragment he called On a Mountain:
Words flowed from him in effervescent abundance, ranging from lengthy essays, autobiographical fragments and provocative tirades to witty or angry letters to magazines or newspapers.
In an autobiographical fragment, written when he was already world famous, he concealed his bastardy, indicating that it still rankled.
The last section, on Oakland, is really an autobiographical fragment, and the book would have been better without it.
"I would climb atop of a small box and preach against drinking beer and damning sin and the devil," Eck recalled in an autobiographical fragment.
Stylistically, they fall between fact and fiction; put another way, they are autobiographical fragments written with novelistic touches.
A handful of other 19th-century justices (Roger B. Taney, Samuel F. Miller) also wrote autobiographical fragments for family and friends.
Then, at the age of 35, he set them down in an autobiographical fragment he wrote for his friend John Forster, making clear the ineffaceable impact they had had.
While with Sburătorul, Călugăru published some of his first autobiographical fragments, which were later integrated in some of his novels.