to look round, to look up
front flyleaf, 90ºccw (detail)
UC Riverside copy/scan, The Forum vol. 75, January-June 1926
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...in health the general pretense must be kept up and the effort renewed, — to communicate, to civilize, to share, to cultivate the desert, educate the native, to work by day together and by night to sport.
In illness this make-believe ceases... They march to battle. We float with the sticks on the stream; helter-skelter with the dead leaves on the lawn, irresponsible and distinterested, and able, perhaps for the first time for years, to look round, to look up, — to look at the sky, for example.
ex Virginia Woolf, “Illness — An Unexploited Mine” in
The
Forum 75:4 (April 1926) : 582-590 (586)
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the above a shorter version, and easier to read (because broken into more paragraphs)
than its first appearance as “On Being Ill,” in
The Criterion, vol. 4 (January 1926) : 32-45
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the same volume contains
- Hector C. Bywater, “The Singapore Naval Base,” The Forum 75:5 (May 1926) : 700-707
hathitrust : link - “Is a War with Japan Possible?”
1. The factor of raw materials (Frederick Maurice, who thinks “no”)
2. The Russo-Japanese precedent (Hector C. Bywater, who thinks it possible)
The Forum 75:6 (June 1926) : 808-819
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Hector C. Bywater (1884-1940), journalist, writer on naval topics
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wrote the prescient novel The Great Pacific War (1925)
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editor of The Forum was Henry Goddard Leach (1880-1970)
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