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Chapter 4 - Virginia Woolf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Jessica Berman
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University of Maryland, Baltimore
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“SPLINTER” AND “MOSAIC”: TOWARDS THE POLITICS OF CONNECTION

For if there are … seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not … all having lodgment at one time or another in the human spirit? Some say two thousand and fifty-two.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 308

I admit fighting to the death for votes, wages, peace, and so on; what I can't abide is the man who wishes to convert other men's minds; that tampering with beliefs seems to me impertinent, insolent, corrupt beyond measure.

Virginia Woolf, Letter to Ethel Smyth, May 18, 1931, in Letters, IV: 373

But it is a mistake, this extreme precision, this orderly and military progress; a convenience, a lie.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 255

Art introduces between profound life and partisan action a confusion that sometimes shocks even the partisans.

George Bataille, “The Socerer's Apprentice,” 226

In October 1931, in the midst of national political and economic crisis, Oswald Mosley and Harold Nicolson called for political change in a new journal entitled simply: Action: “The nation demands action; the politicians seek a ‘formula’ … we ask for policy they give us a manoeuvre.”

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Print publication year: 2001

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  • Virginia Woolf
  • Jessica Berman, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485008.004
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  • Virginia Woolf
  • Jessica Berman, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485008.004
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  • Virginia Woolf
  • Jessica Berman, University of Maryland, Baltimore
  • Book: Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485008.004
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