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<div>The desk is absolutely gorgeous (but the text that superimposed on the bookshelves is definitely visually distracting). </div>
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<div>Thanks so much Leslie!</div>
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<div>Vara</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px;">Vara Neverow</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px;">Professor, English and Women's Studies</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px;">email: <a href="mailto:neverowv1@southernct.edu">neverowv1@southernct.edu</a></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Leslie Kathleen Hankins <<a href="mailto:LHankins@cornellcollege.edu">LHankins@cornellcollege.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, August 17, 2015 at 10:13 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>VWOOLF listserv <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>>, Virginia Woolf <<a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Vwoolf] Duke Magazine pix of VW desk<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all, Duke U acquired VW's writing desk (I believe designed by Vanessa) and here is a scan of the one page piece with picture, entitled "Crazy Smart" (which is a term duke uses for their students, but seems a poor choice here one might say)
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<div>savoring the summer, leslie<br clear="all">
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#9900ff" face="garamond,serif">Leslie Kathleen Hankins</font>
<div><font color="#9900ff" face="garamond,serif">Professor</font></div>
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<div><font color="#9900ff" face="garamond,serif" size="2"><i>"Moreover, however interesting facts may be, they are an inferior form of fiction, & gradually we become impatient of their weakness & diffuseness, of their compromises & evasions, of the slovenly
sentences which they make for themselves, and are eager to revive ourselves with the greater intensity & truth of fiction."
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<div><font color="#9900ff" face="garamond,serif"> Virginia Woolf, "How Should One Read a Book?"</font></div>
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