![]() ![]() I have never experienced such a strange brew of images and ideas that whirl around mere words of a novel, all of which has incited such excitement in me, as if some beautiful and aching aspect of human experience has been solidified on paper that will never be as perfect as it is here. ![]() I left several exclamation points and expressions of pure joy among the marginalia of my copy. At a certain point Woolf describes an idea entering a character’s mind as a drop of ink diffusing in a beaker of water. So much of the prose was redolent of an abstract surrealist film, such were the clarity and preciseness of its images. I can say without reservation, that this is some of the most incredible writing I’ve ever come across and I’m absolutely baffled as to how Woolf pulled it off. I’ve never dwelt over a set of 200 bound pages with as much joy and relish as I have with To the Lighthouse. ![]()
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