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<BODY><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=2><FONT face=arial,sans-serif>My favorite has always been the section about "Memory is the seamstress..." from Orlando. To me it encapsulates Woolf's approach to memory in all her works. <BR></FONT></FONT></FONT>
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<DIV>I suppose we can all do this sort of thing:</DIV>
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<DIV>About another unwelcome visitor: “. . . meretricious, cheap, hard, with ideas like a string of beads from Woolworths.” (Diary)</DIV>
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<DIV>From almost any Woolf novel: “She turned from the china cabinet with a cup in her hand. The windows blazed. She was filled with rapture.”</DIV>
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<DIV>From “The Years”: “The bugles on her dress glittered in the candlelight. Was that the nineteenth century? Martin wondered. Was that all it was?”</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">Stuart N. Clarke</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 05, 2012 11:12 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Fw: RE: VW quote</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>It’s getting worse! I have never heard of this quote either! How often did VW write “paralysing” with a ZED?</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=alionadovghei@yahoo.com href="mailto:alionadovghei@yahoo.com">Aliona Dovghei</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 05, 2012 11:05 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] Fw: RE: VW quote</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top><BR>Just right now found on Facebook. A coincedence!
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<DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 17px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)">“Why should I be bothering myself with questions which shall eternally remain unanswered? How queer that wave of agony; melancholy paralyzing my senses, beautifully, yet for nothing.”</SPAN><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 17px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 17px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)">— Virginia Woolf in a diary entry dated 5 July 1919</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(0,0,127); COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(0,0,127); COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(0,0,127); COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></SPAN><BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 11/6/12, Desanti, Carole <I><Carole.Desanti@us.penguingroup.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Desanti, Carole <Carole.Desanti@us.penguingroup.com><BR>Subject: RE: [Vwoolf] VW quote<BR>To: "Aliona Dovghei" <alionadovghei@yahoo.com>, vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<BR>Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 12:00 AM<BR><BR>
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<P><FONT size=2>“I will not be ‘famous,’ ‘great.’<BR>I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”<BR>— Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary<BR><BR>Carole DeSanti<BR>Vice President, Editor at Large<BR>Viking Penguin<BR>375 Hudson St<BR>NYC NY 10014<BR><BR>212 366 2907<BR>212 366 2365 (fax)<BR>413 549 4129 (Massachusetts ph&fax)<BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: vwoolf-bounces+carole.desanti=us.penguingroup.com@lists.service.ohio-state.edu on behalf of Aliona Dovghei<BR>Sent: Mon 11/5/2012 4:56 PM<BR>To: vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<BR>Subject: [Vwoolf] VW quote<BR><BR>You cannot find peace by avoiding life. <<A href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/virginiawo380774.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/virginiawo380774.html</A>> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>--- On Mon, 11/5/12, Christine Froula <cfroula@northwestern.edu> wrote:<BR><BR><BR><BR> From: Christine Froula <cfroula@northwestern.edu><BR> Subject: [Vwoolf] No need to hurry...<BR> To: vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<BR> Date: Monday, November 5, 2012, 11:54 PM<BR> <BR> <BR> Dear Leslie and all--<BR> <BR> I once taught a freshman seminar on Woolf in which we studied the Hogarth Press's doings and the head of our Special Collections Library taught the students to print on the library's hand press. A favorite with the class was the "No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself" from A Room of One's Own.<BR> <BR> Have fun,<BR> Christine<BR> <BR> <BR> On 11/5/2012 3:23 PM, Leslie Hankins wrote:<BR> <BR><BR> Hello all, I'm designing a letterpress poster of Woolf's most beloved questions and wanted to open up my selection to the listserve.<BR> <BR> Please send me questions from any of her works! I hope to have the broadside ready for the VW conference in British Columbia in June.<BR> <BR> Looking forward to the avalanche of queries! <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> leslie<BR> <BR> President, International Virginia Woolf Society<BR> Leslie Kathleen Hankins<BR> Professor of English<BR> Department of English and Creative Writing<BR> Cornell College<BR> Mount Vernon, Iowa 52314<BR> <BR> <BR> _______________________________________________<BR> Vwoolf mailing list<BR> Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<BR> <A href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" rel=nofollow target=_blank>https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</A><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR> -----Inline Attachment Follows-----<BR> <BR> <BR> _______________________________________________<BR> Vwoolf mailing list<BR> Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<BR> <A href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" rel=nofollow target=_blank>https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</A><BR> <BR><BR> <BR><BR></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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