- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by
his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:53 PM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:

> But she stuffed rocks into her pockets and killed her senses in watery
> suicide.
>  Admittedly, a huge loss and due to illness.  That quote below is ripe with
> suggetive irony....a metaphor of sexual abuse in childhood?
>
> WC
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: joseph berg <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thu, March 15, 2012 12:37:45 AM
> Subject: Re: "You've got to choose between happiness and what people  used
> to
> call high art. We've sacrificed the high art."
>
>  On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:35 PM, William Conger <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > It's true but the happy people have no idea of what's been sacrificed and
> > so
> > they invest trivia and banality with ludicrous gravitas.
> > wc
> >
> >
> - When the shrivelled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it
> satisfies the senses amazingly.
>
> Virginia Woolf

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