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[Marie Claire Boisset]

Dearest Woolfians:

Hope you are all well too, enjoying the summer.

This "Life" moment is indeed memorable and could cause reams of comments
from this one syllable.

After all these years, I would briefly answer Claire's query by opening
another pathway (which I have
explored in the past - hopefully will return to later - Later).


   - "Life!" - If I take my translator's reading glasses, I'd say this can
   be read as "*C'est la vie* !" - "(Such is) Life!".

So potentially a semi-sour, saddened, wistful tone. With a resilient
stance, though: Life is not easy, but one has to accept it as it is. Any
effort against life is to no avail. Life is *what it is*.


   - "Life" was to literally be a *Chapter* in the "Scheme for (the
   remainder of) TW" (TW, *The Two holograph drafts*, J.W. Graham ed.,
   Notebook 10, page 757 = "Life" is a topic.


   - Another much broader line of comment is the ethical stance: VW wanted
   to write about "Life, Death, etc." "Nothing else matter(ed)".
      - This is pointing to the core of her philosophical approach to
      writing (similar to Proust's, amongst others). The effort to TELL "Life".
      That was the goal. That was her life.
      - The possibility of an impossible mission.

Excuse the orts and fragments - in a rush. Thank you!

All the best

MC




*Marie-Claire Boisset-Pestourie*



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