Of long and short time
While I have seen many comments on the elasticity of experienced time, this is the first one...
A space filled to repletion
I like visual and typographical playfulness, and here in Orlando the point about economy in language is underlined not with...
A voice answering a voice?
More than just the writing of poetry, isn't writing in general often 'a voice answering a voice'?
This touching quotation...
Of violet eyes
Only the second example I have come across of violet eyes, never yet seen in real life. Here the 76th...
Toads versus rapiers
Having roundly failed to deter the advances of an Archduke by brazenly cheating him out of tens of thousands...
Trust in dogs and roses
When humans fail you, dogs and roses remain, which has the advantage of simplifying the business of living and stripping...
Of damp and prolixity
Orlando reveals his bias towards the 18th (or against the 19th) century by noting the turn of the century as...
A plunging-in approach to writing
Wonderful exuberance of spirit in this wielding of the pen, beginning with that zestful, zipping 'Hang it all!' and 'Here...
Writing with one’s whole person
A lovely view of how writing can feel when you are in the full flow of it, writing from the...
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