Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life, the same authorities have decided, has nothing whatever to do with sitting still in a chair and thinking. Thought and life are as the poles asunder. . . . Orlando sat so still that you could have heard a pin drop. Would, indeed, that a pin had dropped! That would have been life of a kind.—Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928)
Monday, February 18, 2013
'Thought and life are as the poles asunder.'
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I've been enjoying these quotes from "Orlando," Matt. I don't know if you read Arts & Letters Daily, but they linked to an article on the novel this morning: http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2013/02/shape-shifter-joyous-transgressions-virginia-woolf%E2%80%99s-orlando
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, Kyle! I look forward to reading it. I really should bookmark that Arts & Letters site.
DeleteAlso, finished "Orlando" over the weekend and loved it, if these quotes didn't make that clear. I recommend it.