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finished his sentences and all that

desk. vase. late afternoon.
Cambridge, 10 July 2015

—

epigram ex Clarissa Dalloway (on dull Cowper, vs the Brontës), and

There was a book, but there never will be a book.

— Mr. Pepper, on Jenkinson’s book that wasn’t —

that’s what comes of putting things off, and collecting fossils —

ex Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915)
 

10 July 2015

tags:
glass; local color; sentences; unfulfilled promise
Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915)