[Vwoolf] I wonder . . .
Stuart N. Clarke
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com
Fri Jul 1 12:18:41 EDT 2016
VW’s essay, ‘A Vanished Generation’, opens:
“In Captain Mahan’s biography it is said that Nelson insisted that there was a meaning in all written words, and it is surely an admirable text to hang up in a library.” (E1 239)
I have hunted in Mahan’s bio., but I can’t find this ref. I wonder if perhaps, just perhaps, VW had got confused. Cf. ‘Emerson’s Journals’, where she quoted him: “In good writing, every word means something.” (E1 338)
Stuart
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