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This book, written in a poetics of the body, is one of my all-time favorites. For me, it is a masterpiece. Not least because it examines the dialectical relationship between Life and Art. For Woolf, Mrs. Ramsey's meal - her creation - is a metaphor for the nature of creativity. Artist writer figures in the work show forth the nature of this creativity. Woolf wanted to show that we create Life, just as artist/writer figures create Art. I love the sentiment that we each have a part to play in the
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