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Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf QUOTES

Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf QUOTES

1 " Adeline, who is the girl that she once was, the bright Victorian girl shut behind dark paneled doors with her thirteen, fifteen, eighteen years of life and a Greek lexicon. She is the girl stopped in time who could not speak or feel at the side of her dead mother’s bed. She keeps the cold, clear information of those days, unclouded by revision or the lies of age. "

― Norah Vincent , Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf

2 " And yet, she squints disapprovingly, the wretched intellect at work. Always the masculine mind interferes, sucking the magic out of sounds and shutting it into words. The very word for this, the academic word—onomatopoeia—sounds like what it is, a chained sprite falling down the stairs. "

― Norah Vincent , Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf

3 " So, the image to start. The perception of the world as it is, the phantasm, the flare of the visionary idea is flattened to a page by the male intellect. Controlled, categorized, c-a-t-a-l-o-g-u-e-d. The ethereal is quashed. Address, that beautiful oration announcing itself, becomes a dress feebly worn, becomes a picture of a dress in a catalogue. "

― Norah Vincent , Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf