Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recommend to you an essay by Virginia Woolf about the magical hours of the winter days in London when the sky used to drop like a velvet drape and the street lamps and the lights in the shops popped on in protest...
...Lulu (Justin Theroux and Jennifer Dundas Lowe) keep busy by dealing drugs for a scuzzy TV producer (Matthew Sussman). They reunite when Mark brings home a young hustler (Torquil Campbell), who takes part in a sordid bout of fantasy game playing that makes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? look like Scrabble...
...they come to pin the blame for this disruption on the strange women in the Convent is a tale of Faulknerian complexity and power. Morrison once wrote a Cornell master's thesis on Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, and the Mississippian's incantatory prose rhythms still crop up in her writing. Here is Deacon musing on the past as he drives around in Ruby: "He [Deacon's grandfather] would have been embarrassed by grandsons who worked twelve hours five days a week instead of the eighteen-to-twenty-hour days Haven people once needed just to keep alive, and who could...
There is much to be said for a day spent alone, without interruption except by one's own demons and spells. Solitude provides its own comforts, a space to work through joys and difficulties both, a place to simply be. I praise Virginia Woolf for alerting me so wisely to the room of my own, and I miss it verily...
What was that line Virginia Woolf wrote in A Room of One's Own? "I should remind you how much depends on you, and what an influence you can exert upon the future." At Lilith you can sense the summer shifting, the musical center moving. Said 18-year-old fairgoer Cindy Chen of Seattle: "I don't like [alternative rock]. Too much moshing and men throwing themselves around. It's dangerous...