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<DIV>So I turned to "The Doctor Looks at Literature: Psychological Studies of
Life and Letters" (1923), by COLLINS, Joseph (1866-1950, American neurologist),
and read his essay on Barbellion. I was depressed to read:</DIV>
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<DIV>“The biological discoveries of the latter half of the Nineteenth Century
showed conclusively that the ultimate end to which all life is directed and
toward which every living being strives is the continuation of the race to which
the individual belongs. Life becomes, therefore, a trust, not a gift, and
the only way in which the obligation it entails can be discharged is by
transmitting life to a new generation.” (205)</DIV>
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<DIV>Then I was cheered up when I tuned to chapter vii, “Two Lesser Literary
Ladies of London: Stella Benson and Virginia Woolf”.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=lounsberry@gmail.com>Barbara Lounsberry</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 29, 2018 1:51 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=smhall123@yahoo.co.uk>Sarah M. Hall</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> ; <A
title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com>Stuart N. Clarke</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Arnold Bennett again</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Another influence, perhaps. In April 1920, Woolf received a
copy of W.N.P. <SPAN tabIndex=-1 id=:o8.1>Barbellion's</SPAN> famous <I>Journal
of a Disappointed Man. </I>There she found this 1917 entry: "I am simply
marking time on the edge of a precipice awaiting the order, 'Forward.'"
She employs the figure herself in her May 5, 1920 diary entry: "this marks some
step over a precipice" and then transforms it into the (slightly more hopeful)
image of life as "a little strip of pavement over an abyss" in her October
diary.
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<DIV>One is always struck by the way she makes her vast reading her own.<BR>
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<DIV>Barbara <SPAN tabIndex=-1 id=:o8.2>Lounsberry</SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 6:11 AM Sarah M. Hall via Vwoolf
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<DIV>Demonstrates that just because you don't agree with someone doesn't mean
that they don't have an influence on you.</DIV>
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<DIV>On Thursday, 29 November 2018, 11:43:54 GMT, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
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<DIV>“Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an
abyss?”</DIV>
<DIV>(D2, 25 Oct 1920)</DIV>
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<DIV>“... reminding her [Sophia] somehow that humanity walks ever on a thin
crust over terrific abysses.”</DIV>
<DIV>(“The Old Wives’ Tale”, bk 3, 7.1)</DIV>
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