[Vwoolf] Fw: RE: VW quote

Stuart N. Clarke stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com
Mon Nov 12 11:21:44 EST 2012


“the faintest of all human passions is the love of truth” (A. E. Housman) – you don’t need the ref.!

Stuart

From: Mark Hussey 
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 6:06 PM
To: 'ANNE FERNALD' ; 'Stuart N. Clarke' 
Cc: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu 
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Fw: RE: VW quote

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+shall+eternally+remain+unanswered%3F+How+queer+that+wave+of+agony%3B+melancholy+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 

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
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      212 366 2907
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      -----Original Message-----
      From: vwoolf-bounces+carole.desanti=us.penguingroup.com at lists.service.ohio-state.edu 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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