[Vwoolf] Fw: RE: VW quote

Mark Hussey mhussey at verizon.net
Tue Nov 6 13:06:50 EST 2012


On the internet, no one knows you're a dog (cf. famed NYorker cartoon). And
you can also just make stuff up that then becomes "true" (because I read it
on the internet!)

 

From: vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of ANNE
FERNALD
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 12:28 PM
To: Stuart N. Clarke
Cc: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Fw: RE: VW quote

 

I wondered at first if the "z" was an Americanization. (Cambridge is in the
process of "Englishing" my English as we speak.)

 

But, in fact THERE IS NO DIARY ENTRY from July 5, 1919. Not sure WHERE this
quote comes from, but what a mystery. 

 

In any case, someone on tumblr loved it and it's certainly made the rounds.

 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Why+should+I+be+bothering+myself+with+questions+which+s
hall+eternally+remain+unanswered%3F+How+queer+that+wave+of+agony%3B+melancho
ly+paralyzing+my+senses%2C+beautifully%2C+yet+for+nothing.

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Stuart N. Clarke
<stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:

It's getting worse!  I have never heard of this quote either!  How often did
VW write "paralysing" with a ZED?

 

Stuart

 

From: Aliona Dovghei <mailto:alionadovghei at yahoo.com>  

Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 11:05 PM

To: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu 

Subject: [Vwoolf] Fw: RE: VW quote

 



Just right now found on Facebook. A coincedence! 

 

"Why should I be bothering myself with questions which shall eternally
remain unanswered? How queer that wave of agony; melancholy paralyzing my
senses, beautifully, yet for nothing."
- Virginia Woolf in a diary entry dated 5 July 1919



--- On Tue, 11/6/12, Desanti, Carole <Carole.Desanti at us.penguingroup.com>
wrote:


From: Desanti, Carole <Carole.Desanti at us.penguingroup.com>
Subject: RE: [Vwoolf] VW quote
To: "Aliona Dovghei" <alionadovghei at yahoo.com>,
vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 12:00 AM

"I will not be 'famous,' 'great.'
I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to
be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find
its dimensions, not be impeded."
- Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

Carole DeSanti
Vice President, Editor at Large
Viking Penguin
375 Hudson St
NYC NY 10014

212 366 2907
212 366 2365 (fax)
413 549 4129 (Massachusetts ph&fax)



-----Original Message-----
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du on behalf of Aliona Dovghei
Sent: Mon 11/5/2012 4:56 PM
To: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Subject: [Vwoolf] VW quote

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/virginiawo380774.html> 





--- On Mon, 11/5/12, Christine Froula <cfroula at northwestern.edu> wrote:



        From: Christine Froula <cfroula at northwestern.edu>
        Subject: [Vwoolf] No need to hurry...
        To: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
        Date: Monday, November 5, 2012, 11:54 PM
       
       
        Dear Leslie and all--
       
        I once taught a freshman seminar on Woolf in which we studied the
Hogarth Press's doings and the head of our Special Collections Library
taught the students to print on the library's hand press. A favorite with
the class was the "No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be
anybody but oneself" from A Room of One's Own.
       
        Have fun,
        Christine
       
       
        On 11/5/2012 3:23 PM, Leslie Hankins wrote:
       

                Hello all, I'm designing a letterpress poster of Woolf's
most beloved questions and wanted to open up my selection to the listserve.
               
                Please send me questions from any of her works!  I hope to
have the broadside ready for the VW conference in British Columbia in June.
               
                Looking forward to the avalanche of queries! 
               
               
               
                leslie
               
                President, International Virginia Woolf Society
                Leslie Kathleen Hankins
                Professor of English
                Department of English and Creative Writing
                Cornell College
                Mount Vernon, Iowa 52314
               
               
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sh_faculty/anne_fernald_28537.asp> 
Director of Writing/Composition at Lincoln Center,
Associate Professor of English
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and Women's Studies <http://www.fordham.edu/womens_studies> 
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