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A Christmas gift from dear friend U. aka T.A. Thanks a lot!!!
Page 12 - Preface
Many friends have helped me in writing this book. Some are dead and so illustrious that I scarcely dare name them, yet no one can read or write without being perpetually in the debt of Defoe, Sir Thomas Browne, Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, Emily Bronte, De Quincey, and Walter Pater — to name the first that come to mind. Others are alive, and though perhaps as illustrious in their own way, are less formidabl ...more
Page 12 - Preface
Many friends have helped me in writing this book. Some are dead and so illustrious that I scarcely dare name them, yet no one can read or write without being perpetually in the debt of Defoe, Sir Thomas Browne, Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, Emily Bronte, De Quincey, and Walter Pater — to name the first that come to mind. Others are alive, and though perhaps as illustrious in their own way, are less formidabl ...more
I sometimes forget that the English language can be so beautiful. Orlando is a delightful reminder.
With VW it’s more about the journey than the destination. That being said, I found this more skimmable than, say, Dalloway or Lighthouse. Book club Karen says she likes how VW just seems to say, “I’m just going to take this essay I wrote and slap it in right here,” and it helps me to think of Orlando like that. Still; this was, for me, pretty laborious, despite the undeniable humor and insight.
Way before Layla, Woolf bends gender, and time. Peters out toward the end....
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