#VWFreshwater Day 6, 6/6- "Mr C [opening his eyes slowly]: Alfred, Alfred!" p.72 to p.84 (end). Notes p.85-86.
Thanks for reading together! Hope to see everyone on June 10th for #STWTheCorner2024 ! (1948 first edition cover here.)
Go to Bloomsbury.In that polluted atmosphere spread your doctrines,propagate your race,wear your trousers. But there will come a day he raises his eyes and clasps his hands/ when the voice of purity,of conscience,of highmindedness,of nobility,and truth,will again be heard in the land.
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#VWFreshwater Day 5, 6/5- Page 65 to p.72 "Ellen: Thank you Lord Tennyson. You're a very great poet."
„I shall never see the land of my spiritual youth. I shall never learn the true nature of virtue from the fasting philosophers of Baluchistan. I shall never solve the great problem, or answer the Eternal Question. I am a captive in the hands of Circumstance“
Freshwater—1923 Version
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#VWFreshwater Day 4, 6/4- Notes for 1935 version.
(Think I missed posting yesterday's Day 3, 6/3- Act III. Sorry!)
Freshwater Version 1935: mr. c. got things into perspective!
„I thought I saw something which many people would call a fact pass the window just now. A fact in trousers; a fact in side whiskers; a handsome fact, as facts go. A young man, in fact.“ (I)
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„Go to your lover, girl; live on porpoises fried in oil on desert islands; but leave me—to my art.“
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„In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.“
Moby-Dick [6]
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„With this ring I thee wed; with this brush I thee worship“
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Mammon George Frederic Watts, 1884-5
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But I'm Modesty, Mrs. Cameron; Signor said so. I'm Modesty crouching at the feet of Mammon, at least I was ten minutes ago.
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1935 version
Virginia Woolf
Freshwater Act I
Hello! Hope you'll join me for #VWFreshwater from June 1 - 6, 2024. Virginia Woolf revised her 1923 play for the 1935 performance at Vanessa Bell's residence in London.
Afterwards, starting June 10th, we'll read "The Corner That Held Them" by Sylvia Townsend Warner #STWTheCorner2024 .
