A Writing Quote for Saturday, from Virginia Woolf
“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
~ Virginia Woolf
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I really like this quote; I hope you enjoy it, too. 😉
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“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
~ Virginia Woolf
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I really like this quote; I hope you enjoy it, too. 😉
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I recently went to the Virginia Woolf exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. There were a great many fascinating tidbits about her life and relationships within the Bloomsbury group, but not enough of HER, if you know what I mean. And they didn’t transcribe the handwritten letters and diaries, so it was frustrating for me – I felt close, but so far.
And she is what counts the most, so I would share your disappointment, I think, particularly re the non-trancsribed (even in part?) papers. Have you read Michael Cunningham’s “The Hours” or seen the film? I felt both focused on Virginia herself, rather than her “life and times.”
I haven’t seen ‘The Hours’ and would like to. No, there was very little transcribed indeed! I really missed hearing her voice in that exhibition. For example, that heartbreaking letter she wrote to her husband just before the end was displayed without explanation… as were her diaries. If I hadn’t read them elsewhere I wouldn’t have been able to decipher the handwriting (I am scripturally challenged, it seems, in all senses of the word.)
It actually sounds quite poorly done, from your description, which is a real shame. But I recommend The Hours, both book and film.
There was much of interest for someone interested in history and art, however. Plenty of portraits, tidbits of information about VW’s life and times. It did have much to recommend it. Just not enough of HER.:)
And being in London you get to see and do all these things…”wishing”…Like the Turner exhibition, I would so love to see that.