“I have made a very quick and flourishing attack on ‘To the Lighthouse,’ all the same - 22 pages straight off in less than a fortnight. I am still crawling and easily enfeebled, but if I could once get up steam again, I believe I could spin it off with infinite relish. Think what a labour the first pages of ‘Dalloway’ were! Each word distilled by a relentless clutch on my brain.”