Journals
And other writing by Eric & Dylan
We start with three featured journals/writing pages, which offer great insight, from very different perspectives. The full list follows.
Featured pages from Journals section
The final year of his life: explaining his motives for the attack.
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Dylan writing in Eric's Yearbook:
A year before the attack, they are already stating that it will erupt in the commons, April 1999.
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Side-by-side comparison of four versions of Eric's lies on his felony van theft (public vs private), starting with his apology letter to the victim.
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All page from Journals section
The most significant writings of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are enumerated here. Click a highlighted phrase—those are the passages posted directly here. For others, download the PDF of 1,000 pages of their writing. More information on that below.
Eric's writings:
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Eric's Journal, "The Book of God": April 1998-April 1999.
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Main text, 16 pages.
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Drawings and attack-planning material from the back of the journal. Includes diagrams, sketches, budgets, logs of his bomb production, ammo acquired, etc.
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The "Lasting Impression" rant. This is a typed add-on to the journal, one of his best summaries of the scope of Eric's intentions.
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- 1998 yearbook (Eric's writing about the plan in Dylan's book)
- Eric's Website. View in four web pages:
- The "I HATE"s
- The Missions
- Pipe bombs
- Other
- Van break-in: the
many faces of Eric. The page linked here contains all of the following side-by-side, showing Eric's true (private) feelings about the break-in, alongside the public persona he presented about it:
- Eric's apology letter to the victim (p. 661 from the 1,000 pages)
- Eric's rant about it at the same time in his journal (p. 3 of his journal)
- School essay about it months later (pp. 864-865 of the 1,000 pages)
- Eric's description of it in the
intake-questionnaire for Diversion.
- Web chatroom IMs
- Diversion Program. (Each in a separate web page):
- Intake summary by his counselor
- Eric's intake questionnaire
- His parents' intake questionnaire (Wayne and Kathy Harris)
- Session notes from his bi-weekly counseling meetings
- Eric's written response to Anger Management class
- Eric's early-termination letter of praise
- More Drawings, including Nazi graphics -- 923-930
- Almost everything:
Most of the writings left by Eric and Dylan are contained in a (roughly) 1,000-page batch released in July 2006. I indexed it and culled the most interesting/revealing material below. Click to download from the Rocky Mountain News—warning: it's 34 MB. That's big.
Download it to your hard drive once for both Eric and Dylan, and then follow these page numbers for Eric:
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Eric's day timers: end of junior year — pp. 123-189; senior — pp. 326-398
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Class schedule, grades — p. 421-422,
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Web: "YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE?" 439-443
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Eric's writings and drawings in Dylan's yearbook 579-586
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Favorite song lyrics quoted — pp. 638-641, 709-710, 785-795, 850, 852
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list of likes/dislikes — p. 946
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School papers (the last item of this section lists several page ranges. I broke out the ones I found particularly revealing:
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"The Nazi Culture" (various drafts, outlines, sources) — pp. 44-58, 207-231, 237-244, 613-615, 796-807, 920-921
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"Similarities Between Zeus and I" (freshman year) — p. 856
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"Guns in School" — pp. 232-236, 435-438
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"Guns"—Eric's story of childhood playing guns/war in woods — pp. 695-696, 906
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"Hitmen for Hire" business plan — pp. 684-691, 910-916 (???)
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Essay on Medea (crucial to his thinking on not being taken alive, foreshadowing his suicide in the library): pp. 733-734
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Is murder ever justified — p. 276
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"I am" poem — p. 315, 711
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Essay on fishing: "Just A Day" — p. 871
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First Memory — p. 258
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Eric's descriptions of his previous homes—in school essay — p. 857-860
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Eric's fantasy story, where he's last human alive, and witness to gholish dead — p. 908
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Important Himmler speech: 205, 829
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Various, including weekly current events essays, some on philosophy, and a great number on literature — pp. 613-637, 642-644, 662-683, 730-784, 809-838, 840-849 (see, especially, Tulericito on pp. 848-849), 851, 853-865, 907-921
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Dylan's writings:
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Dylan's Journal: 1997-1999. Nearly 100 pages.
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1998 yearbook (Dylan's writing about the plan in Eric's book.)
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His vicious creative story from February 1999, that foreshadowed the murders. (Link fixed, Sept, 2010.)
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Almost everything:
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Dylan's list coming. His journal begins on p. 470.
Most of the writings left by Eric and Dylan are contained in a (roughly) 1,000-page batch released in July 2006. I indexed it and culled the most interesting/revealing material below. Click to download from the Rocky Mountain News—warning: it's 34 MB. That's big.
Download it to your hard drive once for both Eric and Dylan, and then follow these page numbers for Dylan:
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Killers' Journals
Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold







