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this distrust of any clouding

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detail (90º ccw; levels 40 1.00 255)
facing item 7 —
Carolus Conradt (Karl Conrad), De Versuum Terentianorum Structura (Berlin, 1870)
Classics Pamphlet Collection vol. 39
University of Illinois copy, no date of digitization
raw source

“And one had only to look at him, [or in] as he read, & at his furniture & [surroundings.] <his person> to see that [this spartan habit] exactness & precision [, this distrust of any clouding] were naturally akin to him....
And yet...”
— re: Edward, in Virginia Woolf, The Pargiters (abandoned 1932; NYPL edition 1977, editorial symbols retained) : 64, 65
recast in the “1880” chapter of The Years (1937) — (“He made another note; that was the meaning.”)
 

10 September 2018

tags: and yet; clouds; drift; flagging & fumbling; littoral; a sail; Virginia Woolf