"He had, especially in the evening, these sudden thunderclaps of fear" - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Sunday, July 26, 2009
"He had, especially in the evening, these sudden thunderclaps of fear"
"He had, especially in the evening, these sudden thunderclaps of fear" - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
10 comments:
Love the stencil, but don't see the connection to the quote.
J'adore !!!
It looks like a graffiti artist who missed his vocation as a fine art painter.
As a depressive all her life, VW would know about the lowering of serotonin as evening falls and what havoc it wreaks with the psyche of the fragile.
I think the image is just wonderful, and is not inappropriate for VW considering her ambivalent sexuality.
Yann, moi aussi - un pochoir inhabituel.
CiB, Julie: Sure, quotes work for one and work not for the other - and I am always suprised how the quotes work for all of you - that is really an instructive and therefore satisfying experience - it opens my mind to the many different viewpoints people have.
Something I have never done before (and it will be a exception, ;-)) a little background: the protaganist who is speaking here is suffering from schizophrenia, his wife denies this and wants a normal family life with children and of course the appropriate actions to get them ... something that disturbes him deeply.
Julie might correct me because she knows far more of and about Woolf than me - but what Julie says is coherent to my comment to yesterday's post about Woolf knowing human beings.
I must admit I just really thought about the quote and why I picked it the next day (i.e. today) after reading CiBs comment.
Therefore: open my mind! :-)
And thx for all the comments, they often keep me going ... :-)
Martina.... why so few posts lately?????
Hm, few? One post a day? Hm, daily posts?
Am I in a kind of time and space vortex?
Hm ... I am posting .. I do hope ... just have to check back the last days ... yes ... there are postings ... so ... didn't miss a day - did you? ;-)
maybe...
Sean does not have enough instants of time ...
That explanation is interesting because it could almost be a description of VW herself. I dont know that she was schizophrenic but today she would be called bi-polar. And she had a panic about intimacy with Leonard who suffered silently ...
Julie, only yesterday I read the wikipedia article about Woolf (and am a little bit ashamed, I totally forgot that 'stream of consciousness' was her "invention", I totally forgot owning and having read Nicolson's "Portrait of a Marriage" - suppose I am getting old, duh), however, schizophrenia was my layman's diagnosis.
Sean, hm, everything okay with you? ;-)
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