Some February Beauty

📍Oxford, Iffley Lock

#tothelighthouse

#JaneEyre

Coming soon its cousin #WideSargassoSea by Jean Rhys 🌊

Fire of life, future and past. Of soul and mind, meditative, deep and inextinguishable. Of experience and shadows, guilty, sorrowful, to atone. JE is excruciatingly alive.

“Now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils. I went to the window, opened it, and looked out.”

Seemed ~light~ a good choice to start with. And Virginia is always a good choice.

"What is the meaning of life?(..) the great revelation had never come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark(..)- this was of the nature of a revelation. In the midst of chaos there was shape, this eternal passing was struck into stability”