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Oh Virginia. I see now why people say that you feel like an old friend. These intensely personal, autobiographical writings put her deepest thoughts on display, and in classic Woolfian fashion that doesn't mean that she dramatically reveals some teenage angst, scandalous thoughts, or traumatic events—she simply freezes a second in time, records her interior monologue as far down as the spiral goes, .... and down, and down, and down it goes.
There's five essays here, organized in roughly chronolog ...more
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Gloomy Hydepark Gate 22 followed by nascent and promising Bloomsbury. The high point being the wonderful first dazzling meeting with Roger Fry: "He appeared in a large ulster coat, every pocket of which was stuffed with a book, a paint box or something intriguing; special tips which he had bought from a little man in a back street; he had canvasses unders his arms; his hair flew; his eyes glowed. He had more knowledge and experience than the rest of us put together. His mind seemed hooked on to
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