Alison Jaye 📚 @AlisonJaye
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As perception fades to reality, VW’s “flowery” sentences become short and direct. “And there was nothing. Isabella was perfectly empty. She had no thoughts. She had no friends. She cared for nobody.” #vwstories2024
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“she saw the very fountain of her being spurt up in pure, silver drops” Oh my! #vwstories2024
“What need had she of pins-Julia Craye-who lived, it seemed, in the cool, glassy world of Bach fugues, playing to herself what she liked…” Indeed #vwstories2024
Finished yesterday. Thanks to everyone in the group and to our leader, @joiedevivre9 . Not sure I would have conquered this door stopper on my own. #blacklamb24
Another story that could have been titled “Together and Apart.” The last paragraph was gold. Glad Susan Dick included (see notes). #vwstories2024
VW music musings #vwstories2024 publicdomainreview.org/essay/simple-s…
What an ending ! Exit Prickett Ellis, Miss O’Keefe. “Hating each other, hating the whole houseful of people who had given them this painful, this disillusioning evening, these two lovers of their kind got up, and without a word parted for ever.” #VWStories2024
Jane Austen museum appeals to public for help deciphering brother’s memoir theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…
Perspective. “She and Mr Serle atoms, motes…their lives, seen by moonlight, as long as an insect’s and no more important.”#VWStories2024
“The thunder roused her from her plethoric middle-aged swoon of indifference.” Comic timing. #VWStories2024
Mrs. Dalloway’s record of pairing men and women in the last two stories: 0/2. #VWStories2024
Get thee back to the woods and moors! Such lightness (“the dream,” “the ecstasy of loneliness,” “pure beauty,” “rapture and wonder”) replaced with heaviness (“cloud,” “shrivelled her wings,” “yoke that had fallen from the skies onto her neck and crushed her”). #vwstories2024
Painful transition from an idyllic childhood. When is a party not a party? “(she had suffered abominably) — life had passed over her like a wheel — life was not what it seemed then— it was like this party…” #vwstories2024
“Without doubt it was my duty to keep a record of it…it was my aim to show the past side by side with the present it created.” #blacklamb24
“…for oh these men, oh these women, are all thinking — ‘What’s Mabel wearing?’” (Waring). I didn’t catch it, but read commentary about VW’s clever use of homophones. #VWStories2024
Among the Roses and Violets, there will always be a Mabel. #VWStories2024
“We’re all weevils in a captain’s biscuit.” My new favorite saying. #VWStories2024
Pia Z Ehrhardt @piaze
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#VWStories2024 Week 5 begins April 29th - This cover is of the first edition/ advance copy of a collection of essays that included "Three Pictures." Themes of life & death; published posthumously in 1941.
Without making any thought precise—for she was one of those reticent people whose minds hold thoughts enmeshed in clouds of silence—she was filled with thoughts…. #VirginiaWoolf 'The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection' #VWStories2024
But you see yourself in a looking-glass (and how pleasingly ridiculous to consider taking it down!) & you see the other immediately in the cheque-book or letter - though you see yourself behind the other with your unchecked nosiness and curiosity!
#vwstories2024 A great opening line 'The lady in the looking-glass: a reflection' - 'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime. One could not help looking...' 1/2
#VWstories2024 An inspired opening all round, I love the comparison of looking around an empty house to being a naturalist in the wild. It works. The looking-glass creates 'the trance of immortality.'
#VWstories2024 Language observation: interesting that Woolf says of Isabella 'one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination' when 'prise' is the British spelling and 'prize' the American.
#VWstories2024 'But one was tired of the things that she talked about at dinner. It was her profounder state of being that one wanted to catch & turn to words, the state that is to the mind what breathing is to the body' In short VW's life goal as a writer.
#VWstories2024 The looking-glass is the mind, the writer's perception, the imagination. 'At once the looking-glass began to pour over her a light that seemed to fix her; that seemed like some acid to bite off the unessential & superficial & to leave only the truth.'
Special thank you to @literatureSC for keeping us on track and recommending the most engaging reads.
I thought I was the last person on earth who would spend 69 weeks reading 3600+ pages of a Gen-X, Norwegian man’s “struggle”. Loved it and literature is enriched by KOK’s willingness to overshare all the dark and painful and extremely embarrassing details. #knausgaardtogether
we already had DINING WITH PROUST in paperback, but the hardcover is irresistibly gorgeous.
went to an estate sale today and found #vwstories2024 and #prousttogether treasures. a buck each. I left many more behind which saddens me. whoever the owners were I think I would have liked them. PS…
#vwstories2024 MoB: 'She strung the afternoon on the necklace of memorable days, which was not too long for her to be able to recall this one or that one; this view, that city; to finger it, to feel it, to savour, sighing, the quality that made it unique.'
#vwstories2024 Moments of being, here's one: "'Stars, sun, moon, the daisy in the grass, fires, frost on the window pane, my heart goes out to you. But you break, you pass, you go.' simultaneously it covered the intensity of both these states of mind with 'I can't reach you...'"
@AlisonJaye @rbru1104 @literatureSC Yes! She said Book 6 was the best; if someone only read Book 6, they'd think K. was brilliant.
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