Status Updates From Jacob's Room

‘Such were the very serious consequences of the invention of paper flowers to swim in bowls.’


positively deranged!! I’ve never been so compelled by banality

I am 14 pages into David Copperfield (which I promised I would read before Barbara Kingsolver's book) but man, at over 800 pages, it is DAUNTING for a summer read...so, an experimental Virginia Woolf novel instead I guess!

Je crois que j'ai compris le pb, le livre me berce vraiment quand le pdv est féminin, dès qu'on passe à Jacob je m'ennuie, le perso est un homme basique chez Woolf, cultivé, pretencieux, qui prend de haut les gens et n'apporte rien

Impossible de me souvenir de quoi que ce soit, c'est ce genre de livre....

“But then, this is only a young woman’s language, one, too, who loves or refrains from loving. She wished the moment to continue for ever precisely as it was that July morning. And moments don’t.”

“It was intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly…But intimacy- the room was full of it, still, deep, like a pool.”