I wondered at first if the "z" was an Americanization. (Cambridge is in the process of "Englishing" my English as we speak.)<div><br></div><div>But, in fact THERE IS NO DIARY ENTRY from July 5, 1919. Not sure WHERE this quote comes from, but what a mystery. </div>
<div><br></div><div>In any case, someone on tumblr loved it and it's certainly made the rounds.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Why+should+I+be+bothering+myself+with+questions+which+shall+eternally+remain+unanswered%3F+How+queer+that+wave+of+agony%3B+melancholy+paralyzing+my+senses%2C+beautifully%2C+yet+for+nothing">http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Why+should+I+be+bothering+myself+with+questions+which+shall+eternally+remain+unanswered%3F+How+queer+that+wave+of+agony%3B+melancholy+paralyzing+my+senses%2C+beautifully%2C+yet+for+nothing</a>.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com" target="_blank">stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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><b>From:</b> <a title="alionadovghei@yahoo.com" href="mailto:alionadovghei@yahoo.com" target="_blank">Aliona Dovghei</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 05, 2012 11:05 PM</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;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif">“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;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif">—
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>
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On <b>Tue, 11/6/12, Desanti, Carole
<i><<a href="mailto:Carole.Desanti@us.penguingroup.com" target="_blank">Carole.Desanti@us.penguingroup.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
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Desanti, Carole <<a href="mailto:Carole.Desanti@us.penguingroup.com" target="_blank">Carole.Desanti@us.penguingroup.com</a>><br>Subject:
RE: [Vwoolf] VW quote<br>To: "Aliona Dovghei"
<<a href="mailto:alionadovghei@yahoo.com" target="_blank">alionadovghei@yahoo.com</a>>,
<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br>Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012,
12:00 AM<br><br>
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<p><font>“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=<a href="mailto:us.penguingroup.com@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">us.penguingroup.com@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>
on behalf of Aliona Dovghei<br>Sent: Mon 11/5/2012 4:56 PM<br>To:
<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><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
<<a href="mailto:cfroula@northwestern.edu" target="_blank">cfroula@northwestern.edu</a>>
wrote:<br><br><br><br> From:
Christine Froula
<<a href="mailto:cfroula@northwestern.edu" target="_blank">cfroula@northwestern.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Vwoolf] No need to
hurry...<br> To:
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Date: Monday, November 5, 2012, 11:54
PM<br>
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<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>
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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!
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<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>
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