I'm slowly working through A Life of One's Own. I'm not sure, quite yet, what to make of it. I think there is some great advice there, and it's interesting to hear the psychology behind some of Woolf's work. But, as always, I want to have my cake and eat it too. I want to be the person who is making these discoveries for myself, experiencing Virginia Woolf's writing myself. I want to be the one writing about it and mediating other people's experiences of her, not being on the receiving end of such a process.
I feel I have a bit more growing up to do.
"If someone was once interesting to you but has since moved on, subdue your impulse to blame her for some total or damnable duplicity. I have to try to sit tight as I admit my former friends are complicated, that they range between interests, and that no interesting and lasting friend is utterly consistent."
-- Ilana Simons, A Life of One's Own
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