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<DIV>'"What about Virginia Woolf?" | "I think 'Orlando' almost the worst book of
the century." | "Really! And 'To the Lighthouse'?" | Clarence wriggled in
weary exasperation. 'It's all *right* - but all her writing is so
diffused, so feminine, so sticky. It has such an odd smell about it.
It's just like menstruation."</DIV>
<DIV>("The Great Fortune"*, Part Two "The Centre of Things", ch. 16, in "The
Balkan Trilogy", London: Mandarin, 1990 (*1960), pp.187-88)</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart (Day 192)</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Stuart
N. Clarke via Vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 24, 2020 2:59 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] Mrs Dalloway's dilemma</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV> “She was free to think her own thoughts. She could
develop her own mind. Could she, after all, have borne with someone
possessive, interfering ,jealous fellow who would have wanted her to account for
every breath she breathed?</DIV>
<DIV> “Not for long.</DIV>
<DIV> “In an imperfect world marriage was making do with what
one had chosen.”</DIV>
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(almost the end of Olivia Manning’s ”The Levant Trilogy” (3rd vol. 1st pub’
1980)</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart (Day 191)</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>