Status Updates From Orlando

“[…] or some woman of the quarter whose errand was nothing so innocent.” Virginia! Good lord!

procrastination so bad i’m finally clearing out my nonacademic currently reading shelf (but this isn’t too much of a slog)

he is rich and he is bored! the horror!!! i don't know when was the last time i read a book that had both such interesting sections and then bored me to death at times. to play a devil's advocate with myself, maybe that was the whole point of a mock biography. hm.

For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy; and he goes on to opine that one is twin tellow to the other; and draws from this the conclusion that all extremes of feeling are allied to madness; and so bids us take refuge in the true Church (in his view the Anabaptist), which is the only harbour, port, anchorage, etc., he said,

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for now i'm sceptical ab this one, but i hope it'll pick up after the 1st switch. it's easy to understand why she eased up on the prose a bit for the purposes of the style of the book, but i do gotta say i miss the narrative flare of mrs dalloway