[Vwoolf] Le Guin and Woolf

[Molly Patricia Hite]

Wonderful celebration of both great writers! Thanks, Sally.

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On Jan 25, 2018, at 6:30 AM, Sally Greene <sally at ibiblio.org<mailto:sally at ibiblio.org>> wrote:

On Woolf's birthday, and in memory of the late, great Ursula K. Le Guin, I offer this passage from Le Guin's wonderful book The Wave of the Mind:

"What is the rhythm the silent reader hears? What is the rhythm the prose writer follows?

"While she was writing her last novel, Pointz Hall, which she refers to below as PH, and which when it was published became Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary:

"'It is the rhythm of a book that, by running in the head, winds one into a ball: and so jades one, The rhythm of PH (the last chapter) became so obsessive that I heard it, perhaps used it, in every sentence I spoke. By reading the notes for memoirs I broke this up. The thyrhm of the notes is far freer and looser. Two days of writing in that rhythm has completely refreshed me. So I go back to PH tomorrow. This I think is rather profound.' (Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 November 1940)"

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Sally Greene
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