Thank you for that comment, FACTS!!!

Universities and Lecturers and film and documentary makers have made small fortunes and incomes attributing reasoned but unmeasurable motives and aims to Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. I was pleased with the general sense of disgust to them all by the public following the drama series on them some four years ago. Too many of us across western civilisation have been told by teachers etc that we should venerate and be interested in them as we got into laters years of education. Why? You are better off watching Breaking Bad and studying Walter White and Jessie.

@@clintockmaconaghie3763 You've confused entertainment with culture. All these TV series that people avidly consume, are more or less diverting, but do not (or rarely) grapple with the profound concerns of humankind. Regrettably they also tend to dull one's sense of what good prose sounds like, and therefore deprive us of one the joys of life, namely that of savouring the ring and meditating on the meaning, of a perfectly made sentence. Have you read Woolf's To the Lighthouse ? Dostoyevksy's The Idiot? G. Eliot's Middlemarch ? I don't deny the superficial allure of TV series, but great literature is there to arouse, and then soothe and placate, our deeper existential concerns, and thus bring human existence into a fuller life.

Distortion is offtimes revealed in drawerings and a pecking of the wetted bristles ... tit for tat ... of the soul

I think you’re right I think for Virginia Woolf she was smart and genius.

Louis Beauchamp Why,why why can't there be more young men like you in the world?!! Kudos!:)

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I agree, except I would like to add that Virginia was a remarkable writer to me.

@@kristennoelle9447 there are ,you just dont know how to find them

no but id do anything to visit and check it out, let you know if i see or sense anything. I live in the states but Im a huge fan of Virginia Woolf, and also Im not afraid and very attuned to the spiritual world...

Do you remember what she was wearing?

@@inglatera1910 It was a long time ago but I have a vague memory it some kind of dark dress. I do remember that the car was red.

Ann TwoShoes that’s pretty incredible! Thank you for sharing that experience.

I had been reading Mrs. Dalloway and listening to podcasts about her with Melvyn Bragg. I drove up my street and there went Virginia in a floppy hat and a book bag!

Oh my gosh me too

Totally agree with this. Antidepressants kill the creative process. At least they did for me. I felt like a Goddamn zombie. I'd rather feel intensely than have no feeling at all. I think it's such a fine line to walk as an artist. Yes, there is help; but that help may very well extinguish the creative fire. “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.” -David Foster Wallace

It's true that it might, but walking into a lake while your pockets are full of rocks also extinguishes the fire. Permanently.

Exactly my beautiful beloved’s indeed......👌🙏🦊

Please don’t romanticise the idea of the tourtured artist. Having a mental illness is not a personality trait, taking medication is not restrictive/surpressive, and people don’t have to live in hell so you can better appreciate their art or revel in the belief that their life was ‘beautifully tragic’.

@@freya1340 many people with mental illness will tell that they find medication to be suppressing

Nah, he was a painter. It's what he used to mix pigments, man

Who wants to be a "victim?" There is no power nor joy in victimhood. I know this so well; it is an offensive, ugly thing to give one's allegiance to that persona.

+Jennifer Myre Being a victim is not an identity or destiny. It's a state caused by another person. You can't think your way out of the fact that something happened. Don't worry, this is familiar to me too.

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The people who say that 'this person's life isn't about victim-hood at all because, look at what they accomplished,' don't understand that being a victim of something can shape and change a person. Virginia sounded very intelligent, one with dignity and lived the life of a proper lady as she saw for herself. What happened to her is nothing to be ashamed of; it is just an unfortunate circumstance that no one should go through. It's not ugly on the victim, it's ugly on the person who did it to the victim. We must see this as a possible motivation tactic to her writings and her legacy through feminism awareness. She was a victim but, that does not make her any less. She's forever beautiful and a voice for women everywhere.

What the devil is offensive about it? How does it follow that because she doesn't see VW as a victim being a victim must be denied? How is it you fail to notice that we are now in an age in which victimhood is much closer to being the most exalted status one may attain?

Hallo, I know posted this 3 yrs ago, I have just only come across it. But I think that as Virginia we hear Eileen Atkins.

@@goodstorylover I thought Dame Eileen's voice was who I was hearing :)

eileen Atkins is ideal : she has ascerbity and remoteness as well as incisive intellect as indeed did W oolf

Dame Eileen is on YT in "A Room of One's Own" she also wrote the screenplay for the film "Mrs Dalloway".

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This one about her childhood when they spent hollydays at the seaside, "limehouse light", I don't remember exactly the title because I have read the french traduction. This novel is pure magical, it's like an impressionist painting of the beach in summer time at the end of the 19th century.

She may not have been a "victim" because she was a survivor. THERE is the difference. Having said that, feeling that you're a victim or not, being molested as a child will leave its marks on one's psyche, emotions, and behaviors. Fact, whether you like it or not. Virginia, survivor or victim, she was a tough cookie to stay on this Earth as long as she did.

Sorry. She was very clear about what happened with Duckworth.

No.

@@dawnemile4974 Why?

Have you read Virginia Woolf's writings? She was a genius. Breaking Bad is interesting to Criminal Justice students not English Literature students. I know, I have studied both.

​@@dawnemile4974 The prose of Breaking Bad is part of English literature. The introspective nature of Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group are to limiting. It was an age of self importance that the plurality of internet has enabled to be less valued in comparison. The last work of fiction I really enjoyed reading was the Forsyte Saga.