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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>“it was necessary to write the book [<EM>MD</EM>] first
and to invent a theory afterwards” (1928; <EM>E</EM>4 550)</FONT></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
<<A>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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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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