thinking about when jeanette winterson said that people dismiss virginia’s writing as too abstract abd cold and distant, when in fact it’s too close and too real for people to handle
“I argue that it is not Woolf’s remoteness that puts people off but her nearness that terrifies them. Her language is not a woolly blanket it is a sharp sword… There is no warm blanket to be had out of Virginia Woolf; there is wind and sun and you naked. It is not remoteness of feeling in Woolf, it is excess; the unbearable quiver of nerves and the heart pounding. It is exposure.”
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