doctoral candidate in rhetoric and scientific and technical communication
virginia woolf lives here
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
~ virginia woolf ~
This room has a classic feel to me. Someone who cares about detail lives in this room. Someone who pays attention to the aesthetic roams these floors.
virginia woolf lives here.
I know she does.
I can imagine her puttering around. She moves from space to space, anxious to find the *right* spot to settle, to pull herself in and get down to her writing.
She tucks her feet under her as she snuggles into the plush chair. She twirls a stray hair around her finger while the other hand holds a fountain pen, her fingers dark from ink.
She contemplates what she will put down on the page.
But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? – the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world – a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
~ virginia woolf ~
Thanks for sharing your vision inspired by my living room, Dawn. It is important to me to surround myself with comfortable things that have a quiet beauty. It is settling and serene here.
If VW lives in this room, just IMAGINE who must inhabit in my office and studio! I do indeed have a room of my own in which to write fiction, to paint and to putter. I shall post more inspiring spaces soon.