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Notes
1. For the chapter that provided the foundations for the present paper, see my forthcoming “Virginia Woolf
and Beginning’s Ragged Edge,” Narrative Beginnings, ed. Brian Richardson (Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press). I am deeply grateful to Brian Richardson for his helpful comments and support.
2. For the connection of such chiasmic turns to Woolf’s “but” clauses, see, for example, Laura Doyle’s “Th e
Body Unbound: A Phenomenological Reading of the Political in A Room of One’s Own,” and the critics
whom she cites.
3. OED, defi nition B.2.a.
4. In her diary notes about revising Th e Years, for example, Woolf jotted, “go back: and rub out detail; too
many ‘points’ made; too jerky, and as it were talking ‘at’” (D4 353).
5. For these words, quoting Lady Astor in the Times, see Woolf’s “Th oughts on Peace in an Air Raid.”
6. Here my thoughts link as afterwords to the earlier conference session on “Trashy Woolf,” especially to Sara
Crangle’s wonderful paper on “Cesspoolage.” What I add to her paper is the further connection of the
cesspool to the fertilizing mud.
7. “Baedecker [sic] will count the statues,” Woolf declared in her 1906 Greece diary, “but we won’t write
guidebook” (PA 319). As one member of my audience commented, the approach I am describing here
fi nds its closer analogue in Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Torso of an Archaic Apollo,” in which statue and viewer
are conjoined in reciprocal gaze, and the reader is both seer and seen.
8. My afterwords here expand upon Th aine Stearne’s pertinent suggestion, in his conference paper on Woolf
and Imagism, that what distinguishes Woolf’s imagism is her incorporation of movement in the image. As
we see here, her dynamic images further imply a movement (e.g. battle) that is to come.
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