A little tidbit from Brainpickings.org today, one of my favorite haunts. Virginia Woolf on the Paradox of the Soul and the Consolations of Aging.
Woolf marvels at “the slipperiness of the soul”; “oh the delicacy and complexity of the soul,” she exclaims in another; she fantasizes about writing “a dialogue of the soul with the soul” in another still. In an entry from February of 1926, midway through writing To the Lighthouse, she resolves to begin each day on a new page — her self-professed “habit in writing serious literature” — and considers the craftsmanship of the soul:
As for the soul… the truth is, one can’t write directly about the soul. Looked at, it vanishes; but look at the ceiling, at Grizzle [the dog], at the cheaper beasts in the Zoo which are exposed to walkers in Regent’s Park, and the soul slips in. It slipped in this afternoon.
Read the article here: https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/06/virginia-woolf-soul-aging/?utm_content=buffer639a0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
