[Vwoolf] A Hard Question

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

There are many blades in /The Waves/. Sunbeams, blades of grass, knife 
blades, the blade of a fan, shoulder blades. And one ambiguous one that 
could as suggested be a fin (but you would not cover a fin with fleece 
would you?). And Susan’s body. "My body has been used daily, rightly, 
like a tool by a good workman, all over. The blade is clean, sharp, worn 
in the centre."

Stuart's classical suggestion seems to me the most convincing, but the 
jury is still out.

As for Lenore C- Terr's interpretation: does she have anything to say 
about this?

“But if you hold a blunt blade to a grindstone long enough, something 
spurts – a jagged edge of fire; so held to lack of reason, aimlessness, 
the usual, all massed together, out spurted in one flame hatred, contempt.”

Jeremy H

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