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<DIV>VW’s essay, ‘A Vanished Generation’, opens:</DIV>
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<DIV>“In Captain Mahan’s biography it is said that Nelson insisted that there
was a meaning in all written words, and it is surely an admirable text to hang
up in a library.” (E1 239)</DIV>
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<DIV>I have hunted in Mahan’s bio., but I can’t find this ref. I wonder if
perhaps, just perhaps, VW had got confused. Cf. ‘Emerson’s Journals’,
where she quoted him: “In good writing, every word means something.” (E1
338)</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>