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now realise that I didn’t make myself clear – so obsessed am I with “Jacob’s
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I want to know is where it is reported that Vanessa asked that question – it’s
in Sue Roe’s note in her 1992 Penguin edn of the novel – I spoke to her briefly
last Saturday, but she couldn’t remember where she found it!</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><STRONG>Virginia Woolf’s sister Vanessa once
asked, as a young child, if this was the case. </STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Where is this referenced? I’ve hunted in
some of the obvious places, and failed to find it. Yet, it sounds
familiar, unless it’s just been going round and round in my head.</SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Times>"They say the sky is the same
everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles and the dying draw comfort
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Times>from the thought, and
no doubt if you are of a mystical tendency, consolation, and even explanation,
shower </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face=Times>down from the
unbroken surface. But above Cambridge--anyhow above the roof of King's
College Chapel--there is a difference. Out at sea a great city will cast a
brightness into the night. Is it fanciful to suppose the sky, washed into
the crevices of King's College Chapel, lighter, thinner, more sparkling than the
sky elsewhere? Does Cambridge burn not only into the night, but into the day?"
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