Orlando

[tjs_whatnot]

So, I've been reading Virginia Woolf's book, Orlando. Wow! I wasn't expecting that! Here I was thinking I was reading what might be an actual biography of some English nobleman I'd never heard of (that's how good Ms. Woolf is in sucking you into her reality) then about 100 pages into it, he goes to bed a man and wakes up, a woman...HUH? Not only a woman, but a lesbian! Whoa, I can't wait to see how this ends. No wonder the Indigo Girls have a song about her. It's all starting to make sense.

My favorite part of the book though, is her take on writing. Because not only is Orlando a transmorphedsexual; he/she is also, of course, a writer, poet actually. But of course, not a real poet, because, well, because he's rich, and you can't be rich and a writer...duh?

So here's my new favorite quote, "...once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the inkpot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."

Anyone else read it?

Comments

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

Yes, I find numbers soothing as well. They are the only way I survive Road Rage every morning. I take the numbers in the license plate and try to figure out the square root, or who many times it could be divided before I get a prime number...very distracting.

As for chocolate...I know many who share your addiction of choice. Me? I like my chocolate the best in my alcohol...Chocolate Martini? Yum!!

[zafania.livejournal.com]

i've never had a chocolate martini, but thers a chocolaote liquer called mozart that i'm very fond of.

I avoid the traffic by making my way down back roads, but i find the signs that warn you to slow down by telling you how many deaths and casualties there have ben on that stertch of raod during the last twelve months very distracting because i isntantyl start working out how many that is per week/ month/day!