434 The Story of the Hogarth Press Part 1 - Virginia Woolf's First Self-Published Story
The History of Literature
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Generalizations Bring Back Again and Again
We are looking into the mirror that accounts for the expression in our vague and almost glassy eyes. And the novelist in future will realize more and more the importance of these reflections. Those are the depths they will explore, those the phantoms they will pursue. Generalizations bring back somehow, sunday in london, sunday afternoon walks, sunday luncheons. How shocking it was to discover that these real things were not entirely real. Were indeed half phantoms. The damnation which visited the disbeliever in them was only a sense of illegitimate freedom. What now takes the place of those things? I wonder, perhaps, should you be a woman, the masculine point
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