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“How Difficult Not To Go Making ‘Reality’ This And That”: Virginia Woolf’S Record Of Representation, Julia E. Eifert Jan 2020

“How Difficult Not To Go Making ‘Reality’ This And That”: Virginia Woolf’S Record Of Representation, Julia E. Eifert

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Virginia Woolf writes in her journal in March 1929 that:

[...]Life is very solid, or very shifting? I am haunted by the two contradictions. This has gone on for ever: will last forever; goes down to the bottom of the world- this moment I stand on. Also it is transitory, flying, diaphanous. I shall pass like a cloud on the waves. Perhaps it may be that though we change; one flying after another, so quick so quick, yet we are somehow successive and continuous- we human beings; and show the light through.

Woolf obsessively journaled her anxieties concerning the linearity …