Tag Archives: Roger Fry

GAZING AT THE COLD SLOW TERRORS OF THE WORLD

Yet who reads to bring about an end however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practice because they are good in themselves, and some pleasures that are final? And is not this among them? I have sometimes dreamt, … Continue reading

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PENETRATING THE ILLUSIONS OF SELF: SHIVERING WITH SHAME

“In a 1937 broadcast entitled,” Craftsmanship,” Virginia Woolf seems to predict the ways that contemporary political movements and subsequent social changes have impacted on readers’ ability to discern meanings in her fiction inaccessible to previous generations. She writes that “words that are unintelligible … Continue reading

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