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October 1927

[...] having done my last article for the Tribune, & now being free again.
And instantly the usual exciting devices enter my mind: a biography beginning in the year 1500 & continuing to the present day, called Orlando: Vita [sackville-west]; only with a change about from one sex to another.

This is a book, I think I have said before, which I write after tea. [...] It is to be a small book, & written by Christmas.

I thought I could combine it with Fiction, but once the mind gets hot it cant stop; I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me; from which I have kept myself since last February, or earlier.
Talk of planning a book, or waiting for an idea! This one came in a rush; I said to pacify myself, being bored & stale with criticism, [...]

virginia woolf, diary

Der gendersensibel überarbeitete Hessen-Löwe sieht aus, als solle er Nehmerländer im Finanzausgleich verschrecken.

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schon viel zu lange nicht mehr gesehen. richtig gute handlung & eine sagenhafte schauspielerische leistung von alec guinness & den anderen darstellern.

dt. ›dame, könig, ass, spion‹

Thu 23 June 1927

Sibyl has dropped me: & I don't feel the fall.

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I am distressed by my failure to make cigarettes. I had a lesson from a man in Francis Street—cant do a thing with my fingers. Angelica is expert with hers already. Nessa says all painters are: this is a perquisite they get thrown in with their gift.

virginia woolf, diary

Die Männer, die während des Jugoslawienkriegs von Italien aus nach Sarajevo fuhren, um dort am Wochenende auf Frauen, Männer und Kinder zu schießen, nahmen Trophäen nach Hause mit. Es waren die Patronenhülsen, zumeist vom Kaliber 7,62 mal 51 Millimeter, auf denen eine Farbe angab, welches Ziel getroffen worden war. Blau stand für einen Jungen, Rosa für ein Mädchen. Rot für einen Mann, Rot und Grün, wenn es sich um einen Soldaten handelte.

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Sat 11 December 1926

I also have made up a passage for The Lighthouse: on people going away & the effect on one's feeling for them.

virginia woolf, diary