22.7.12

virginia's flights of fancy

Woolf also wrote about life in London that in the "street outside, one catches a word in passing and from a chance phrase fabricates a lifetime". From these overheard conversations, she suggested, it was possible to "penetrate a little way, far enough to give oneself the illusion that one is not tethered to a single mind, but can put on briefly for a few minutes the bodies and minds of others".

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