Melymbrosia | 
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I finally FINALLY finished Melymbrosia. It was mostly mediocre and racist, far from what I'd expect from a writer of Woolf's caliber. I guess that's what I get for buying into the "never-published unfinished early novel!" thing.
I finally FINALLY finished Melymbrosia. It was mostly mediocre and racist, far from what I'd expect from a writer of Woolf's caliber. I guess that's what I get for buying into the "never-published unfinished early novel!" thing.
"Raymond says he'll shoot himself if I don't marry him and I say "Well, shoot yourself!" but of course he doesn't--they never do."
"When you think that you have only one life--just for a second and all that waste of sea behind you and before you--and that other human beings should interfere with the smallest moment of it--then you hate them more than anything in the world."
"If I had a daughter I should give her a square of cardboard painted blue and make her think of infinity every day."
Ms. Woolf just HAD to drop a random anti-Semitic remark into the narration. Gawd, the British. 😒
""If I were you," said Evelyn..."I'd raise a troop and conquer some great territory and make it splendid....I'd love to start life from the very beginning as it ought to be--nothing squalid--but great halls and gardens and splendid men and women."
....
"It isn't any territory in particular," Evelyn explained. "It's the idea, don't you see? We lead such tame lives.""
No Interwar novel is complete without at least one proto-fascist. ?
"A cold breeze played upon them, refreshing as the spray of a douche."
Today in odd similes: the wind that gives you a yeast infection.
""Remember, there are two women you've never seen," said Hirst. "Suppose one of them has a tendency to mountain sickness or only talks German, and the other--" "Has a hump on her back and a long black tail--I shall introduce her to you," said Hewet."
Damn, sass queen. For context, Hirst thinks he's better and smarter than everyone else, and often complains about never getting laid.
Richard Dalloway--an insufferable, pretentious bore anyway--is performing textbook grooming for sexual abuse on the young female protagonist. And Mrs. Dalloway is helping. I guess the couple that preys together stays together. 😝😷
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway, yes, that one, she who said she would get the flowers herself, makes an appearance in this book.
And opines that suffragettes are ridiculous because women should never be allowed to vote.
Distraught. This book is officially my Go Set a Watchman. 😦😭
"The shooting motor cars, more like spiders in the moon than terrestrial objects..."
Today in odd similes.