[Vwoolf] "They say the sky is the same everywhere:"

[Stuart N. Clarke]

I now realise that I didn’t make myself clear – so obsessed am I with “Jacob’s Room”.
What I want to know is where it is reported that Vanessa asked that question – it’s in Sue Roe’s note in her 1992 Penguin edn of the novel – I spoke to her briefly last Saturday, but she couldn’t remember where she found it!

Stuart

Virginia Woolf’s sister Vanessa once asked, as a young child, if this was the case. 

Where is this referenced?  I’ve hunted in some of the obvious places, and failed to find it.  Yet, it sounds familiar, unless it’s just been going round and round in my head.

Stuart

"They say the sky is the same everywhere.  Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles and the dying draw comfort from the thought, and no doubt if you are of a mystical tendency, consolation, and even explanation, shower down from the unbroken surface.  But above Cambridge--anyhow above the roof of King's College Chapel--there is a difference.  Out at sea a great city will cast a brightness into the night.  Is it fanciful to suppose the sky, washed into the crevices of King's College Chapel, lighter, thinner, more sparkling than the sky elsewhere? Does Cambridge burn not only into the night, but into the day?" 


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