Anna B
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Anna B
When Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was read to me and Alice sighs, “Oh, how I long to run away from normal days! I want to run wild with my imagination,” I remember rising up from my pillow and thinking, yes, yes, that’s it exactly.
Maggie O'Farrell • I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Everything that rises must converge, or not.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
The excess clauses are sometimes replanted or grafted nearby, not disposed of entirely.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Before the 20th century, reflection on truth in Western intellectual and spiritual traditions usually exalted it. ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf’s Writings About Illness and Disability
Gabrielle Bellotlithub.comWhen, in the 1970s, the Sex Pistols sang “There is no future,” there was at least a confrontational relish to it. Now there’s just dread.
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Have I allowed myself to be so lulled, so infantilised by the ever-present, always anticipated service of this luxury resort that I have surrendered my free will, my judgement?