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WATER SPIDERS: Quantitative and Social Easing
This aspect of Keynes — the shrewd investor, the canny player of financial markets — is rather unexpected in light of the man ’ s early life and beliefs. Keynes was an aesthete, his first allegiance to philosophy and the art of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Upchurch, Bertrand Russell, Cecil Day-Lewis, Clive Bell, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Francis Bacon, G.E. Moore, Henry James, Jan Ellen Goldstein, John Maynard Keynes, Kenneth Clark, Leonard Woolf, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Quentin Bell, Roger Fry, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden
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CATCHING THE MOMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
“I married, and then my brains went up in a shower of fireworks. As an experience, madness is terrific … and not to be sniffed at, and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelica Bell, Bertrand Russell, Carrie Crockett, Clive Bell, Douglass Orr, Duncan Grant, Edward Albee, Elizabeth Abel, Elizabeth P. Richardson, G.E. Moore, George M. Johnson, Gerald Brenan, Jan Goldstein, Julian Bell, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Malcolm Ingram, Meryl Streep, Michael Holroyd, Roger Fry, S.P.R., Sigmund Freud, Society of Psychical Research, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf
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AESTHETIC OF ILLNESS: "THIS MONSTER, THIS BODY"
Alix Strachey, a practising psychoanalyst and an old friend of the Woolfs, discussing why Leonard had not persuaded Virginia to see a psychoanalyst about her mental breakdowns, concluded ‘Virginia’s imagination, apart from her artistic creativeness, was so interwoven with her … Continue reading
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Tagged Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Hermione Lee, Hogarth Press, James Joyce, James Strachey, Jane Elizabeth Fisher, Julia Briggs, Leonard Woolf, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Kerr, Lytton Strachey, Panthea Reid, Richard Burton, Roger Fry, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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GEOMETRY OF LOVE: The Square Root of Living in Fractions
“Virginia and Vanessa, despite their occasional differences, had an unbreakable bond of love and support. Hermione Lee expounds at length about their dysfunctional childhood which undoubtedly acted as an indissolvable glue in their relationship. But as for the rest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice K. Miller, Alice Miller, Amy King, Bertrand Russell, Beth Hale, Bloomsbury Group, Clive Bell, Diana Russell, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keynes, Judith Herman, Katie Mitchell, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Borges-Giramonti, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Maurice de Vlaminck, Nicole Kidman, Pablo Picasso, Stephen Daldry, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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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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Tagged Alice Miller, Arthur Symons, Bloomsbury Group, Brian A. Oard, Clive Bell, Diego Velasquez, Dora Carrington, E.M. Forster, Edouard Manet, Elisa Kay Spark, George Duckworth, George Frederick Watts, Harold Bloom, Kate Hext, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lorraine Sim, Meryl Streep, Miriam Roth, Nicole Kidman, Noel Carrington, Oscar Wilde, Quentin Bell, Ralph Partridge, Rembrandt, Roger Fry, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Daldry, Susannah Carson, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater
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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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Tagged Alice Miller, Arnold Bennett, Arthur Rimbaud, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, Charles Darwin, Clive Bell, D.H. Lawrence, David Garnett, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Taylor, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.E. Moore, Henry Tonks, Herbert Spencer, Herimone Lee, Hermione Lee, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Lyndall Gordon, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Mitchel Leaska, Patricia Kramer, Roger Fry, Rupert Brooke, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Khamsi, Thackeray, Thomas Huxley, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater, Wynham Lewis
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