January 2012
17 posts
Marjorie Strachey / Souvenir
The Bloomsbury Group
Marjorie Strachey talks about the Stephen family and Bloomsbury.
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Priceless. Best voice/accent.
“And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything. Little words that broke up the thought and dismembered it said nothing. “About life, about death; about Mrs. Ramsay” - no, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like the most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?”
—To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (via carbonaluminium)
“‘I am alone’, said Orlando, aloud since there was no one to hear.
That silence is more profound after noise still wants the confirmation of science. But that loneliness is more apparent directly after one has been made love to, many women would take their oath.” —Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via crevettefumee)
That silence is more profound after noise still wants the confirmation of science. But that loneliness is more apparent directly after one has been made love to, many women would take their oath.” —Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via crevettefumee)
“Perhaps because she had been travelling, it seemed as if the ship were still padding softly through the sea; as if the train were still swinging from side to side as it rattled across France. She felt as if things were moving past her as she lay stretched on the bed under the single sheet. But it’s not the landscape any longer, she thought; it’s people’s lives, their changing lives.”
—Virginia Woolf (via chekhonte)
Vita Sackville-West / Talk on Virginia Woolf and Orlando
The Bloomsbury Group
Vita Sackille-West discusses the inspiration behind Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando.
Suppose Orlando turns out to be Vita..
