<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">And in the cited passage from <i>Orlando</i>, this love-letter of a parody biography, Woolf is playing with Vita's name, since "vita" is Latin for "life"--"Vita, Vita, Vita!" indeed!<div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; ">Let us go, then, exploring, this summer morning, when all are adoring the plum blossom and the bee. And humming and hawing, let us ask of the starling [ . . . ] what he may think on the brink of the dust bin, whence he picks among the sticks combings of scullion’s hair. What’s life, we ask, <b>leaning on the farmyard gate;</b> Life, Life, Life! cries the bird, as if he had heard. (199, Harcourt, ed. DiBattista)</p><div style="margin-left: 0.5in; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>
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