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Aanwezig waren Inez (gastvrouw), Patrick, Anna, Hans en ik (Frank).
"He was describing, as all young poets are for ever describing, nature, and in order to match the shade of green precisely he looked (and here he showed more audacity than most) at the thing itself, which happened to be a laurel bush growing beneath the window. After that, of course, he could write no more. Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another."
Hans' stelling is dat Woolf stelt dat 'taal tekort schiet' om de werkelijkheid weer te geven, maar dat dat een achterhaald idee is omdat iedereen immers altijd 'beschrijft' en zich bewust is van de beperkingen van taal.
"He--for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it--was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. It was the colour of an old football, and more or less the shape of one, save for the sunken cheeks and a strand or two of coarse, dry hair, like the hair on a cocoanut. Orlando's father, or perhaps his grandfather, had struck it from the shoulders of a vast Pagan who had started up under the moon in the barbarian fields of Africa; and now it swung, gently, perpetually, in the breeze which never ceased blowing through the attic rooms of the gigantic house of the lord who had slain him." misschien zelfs truttig, maar wordt steeds vreemder en uiteindelijk bijna surealistisch. Hierdoor verandert de inhoud van het boek eigenlijk tot bijzaak, wat overblijft is een soort vervreemding.
"As she spoke, the first stroke of midnight sounded. The cold breeze of the present brushed her face with its little breath of fear. She looked anxiously into the sky. It was dark with clouds now. The wind roared in her ears. But in the roar of the wind she heard the roar of an aeroplane coming nearer and nearer.
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