My Head Swimming With Virginia

Live performance at the Conservatory of Amsterdam

Excerpts used:

My Head Swimming With Virginia

I simply adore Virginia Woolf, and so would you.
You would fall quite flat before her charm and personality…
Mrs. Woolf is so simple: she does give the impression of something big.
She is utterly unaffected: there are no outward adornments — she dresses quite atrociously.

At first you think she is plain, then a sort of spiritual beauty imposes itself on you, and you find a fascination in watching her.

She is both detached and human, silent till she wants to say something, and then says it supremely well.

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I’ve rarely taken such a fancy to anyone, and I think she likes me.
At least, she asked me to Richmond where she lives.
Darling, I have quite lost my heart.

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Dined with Virginia at Richmond. She is as delicious as ever.
How right she is when she says that love makes anyone a bore, but the excitement of life lies in “the little moves” nearer to people.

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Lunch with Virginia in Tavistock Square, where she has just arrived.
The first time that I have been alone with her for long.
Went on to see Mama, my head swimming with Virginia.
- Vita Sackville-West, 1922
(for the full article from which the excerpts were taken see https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/07/28/virginia-woolf-vita-sackville-west/ )

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