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On Friday, 21 August 2020, 09:28:22 BST, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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<div>What does the second sentence mean?</div>
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<div>“<span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">I
left Louis; I feared embraces. With fleeces, with vestments, I have tried to
cover the blue-black blade.” (Rhoda in “The Waves”)</span></div>
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"></span><span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">To
be honest, I just don’t know. I can only guess at: “With classical culture
(the Golden Fleece?) and religion (vestments) I have tried to protect myself
from the cruelty of the world.”</span></div>
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"></span><span style="WHITE-SPACE:normal;WORD-SPACING:0px;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;FLOAT:none;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;ORPHANS:2;WIDOWS:2;DISPLAY:inline !important;LETTER-SPACING:normal;TEXT-INDENT:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">But
someone else is completely confident about the meaning . . .</span></div>
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<div><font style="COLOR:#000066;"><span><font style="background-color: inherit;" size="2" color="#000000">Lenore C. Terr, “Who’s Afraid in
Virginia Woolf: Clues to Early Sexual Abuse in Literature”,
<em>Psychoanalytic_Study_of_the_Child</em>, XLV:533-46,
1990.</font></span></font></div>
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<div><font style="COLOR:#000066;" color="#000000"><span>Stuart (Day 157)</span></font></div>
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