[Vwoolf] the superfluous imagination

[Stuart N. Clarke]

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion. At the age of twelve or so, having given up dolls and broken our steam engines, France, but much more probably Italy, and India almost for a certainty, draws the superfluous imagination. One’s aunts have been to Rome; and every one has an uncle who was last heard of—poor man—in Rangoon. He will never come back any more. But it is the governesses who start the Greek myth. 
(JR, ch. XII, p. 223 1st Hogarth)

Stuart


From: Harish Trivedi via Vwoolf 
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2018 6:14 AM
To: Anne Fernald 
Cc: Virginia Woolf 
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] did Woolf read the Gita?

[snip]

Finally, could anyone please help me find the chapter and verse for an obiter dictum by VW that I have cherished for long which goes something like: "Both India and Italy exercise the superfluous imagination."  My supervisor Frank Bradbrook used to say that VW sent her characters off to India to get them out of the way for a while or to die.  And of course there aren't too many of those either. 

All best. 


Harish Trivedi 

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