Cream-coloured ponies
These ponies trot up to Orlando's front door within days of the many court cases arrayed against her over a...
Eyes like (II) …
Another unusual description of eyes by Virginia Woolf, as Orlando tries to confirm the gender of the girl he is...
Blotted images and spotted mirrors
An original way to convey a flawed image, likening it to the spots you used to find on old mirrors,...
Spider-thin boats
What a delicate detail, to describe these boats on the Serpentine as 'spider-thin'. It makes me think of those hair-limbed...
Our many selves
This short discourse on our fragmented and multiplicitous selves struck me, and their resemblance to plates piled on a waiter's...
Eyes like …
I have never seen violet eyes, though I have a recollection of someone describing Elizabeth Taylor's as being of this...
Of damp and prolixity
Orlando reveals his bias towards the 18th (or against the 19th) century by noting the turn of the century as...
Cooling the ardour of the Archduke
A wonderful, quirky episode in Orlando: a bizarre game played for hours, days, weeks, by Orlando and the Archduke whose...
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...
Dead or alive?
This marvelously stark encounter with a dark stranger proves to be Orlando's first meeting with the man she will marry. ...
Which would you choose?
I would be hard put to choose but I think I would opt to leave behind a wall where peaches...
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