[Vwoolf] A Hard Question

[Stuart N. Clarke]

What does the second sentence mean?

“I left Louis; I feared embraces. With fleeces, with vestments, I have tried to cover the blue-black blade.” (Rhoda in “The Waves”)

To be honest, I just don’t know.  I can only guess at: “With classical culture (the Golden Fleece?) and religion (vestments) I have tried to protect myself from the cruelty of the world.”

But someone else is completely confident about the meaning . . .









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Lenore C. Terr, “Who’s Afraid in Virginia Woolf: Clues to Early Sexual Abuse in Literature”, Psychoanalytic_Study_of_the_Child, XLV:533-46, 1990.


Stuart (Day 157)
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