Status Updates From Orlando

Poor Orlando. From existential dread to a romantic betrayal (that he lowkey deserved) and now becoming bored with every facet of life.
Woolf writes this in such an interesting way because she keeps breaking the fourth wall and it makes my engagement with this not so easy. Although I suppose that’s my fault as I think this is supposed to be a biography?

Shelving bc I know I want to sit and think with it and the next two weeks are crazy

“For that was the way his mind worked now, in violent see-saws from life to death stopping at nothing in between, so that the biographer must not stop either, but must fly as fast as he can and so keep pace with the unthinking passionate foolish actions and sudden extravagant words in which, it is impossible to deny, Orlando at this time of his life indulged.”