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<div dir="ltr"><div>Dearest Woolfians:</div><div><br></div><div>Hope you are all well too, enjoying the summer.</div><div><br></div><div>This "Life" moment is indeed memorable and could cause reams of comments from this one syllable.</div><div><br></div><div>After all these years, I would briefly answer Claire's query by opening another pathway (which I have </div><div>explored in the past - hopefully will return to later - Later).</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>"Life!" - If I take my translator's reading glasses, I'd say this can be read as "<i>C'est la vie</i> !" - "(Such is) Life!". </li></ul></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>So potentially a semi-sour, saddened, wistful tone. With a resilient stance, though: Life is not easy, but one has to accept it as it is. Any effort against life is to no avail. Life is <i>what it is</i>.</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><ul><li>"Life" was to literally be a <i>Chapter</i> in the "Scheme for (the remainder of) TW" (TW, <i>The Two holograph drafts</i>, J.W. Graham ed., Notebook 10, page 757 = "Life" is a topic.</li></ul></div><div><ul><li>Another much broader line of comment is the ethical stance: VW wanted to write about "Life, Death, etc." "Nothing else matter(ed)".</li><ul><li>This is pointing to the core of her philosophical approach to writing (similar to Proust's, amongst others). The effort to TELL "Life". That was the goal. That was her life. </li><li>The possibility of an impossible mission.</li></ul></ul><div>Excuse the orts and fragments - in a rush. 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