A portion of the Woolf library reassembled by Andrew McCarthy and Nora Wiechert, doctoral candidates in English literature at WSU
Sorry, but after reading an e-mail from Trevor James Bond of Washington State University, I can’t get a 1979 Peaches and Herb song out of my head.
The song is “Reunited,” and its chorus starts out like this, “Reunited and it feels so good. Reunited ’cause we understood.”
The song applies because Bond’s message shares the news that the collection that once made up Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s library, which was interspersed with WSU’s other rare book collections and shelved by Library of Congress Subject Headings in 1978, will be reunited and grouped together in its own space at WSU this summer.
The move will make it easier for researchers to browse the volumes once owned by the Woolfs. You can read more about the collection here.
Ah, yes. Once again we are shown Virginia Woolf’s relevance to our 21st-century world. Gretchen Rubin quotes Woolf in her Huffington Post piece “Thirteen Tips for Actually Getting Some Writing Done.”
Here’s the Woolf quote Rubin shares: “The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw.”
Okay then.
Exercise to get the endorphins flowing. Check.
Fresh air to get the oxygen flowing. Check.
Reading the excellent words of another to get the creativity flowing. Check.
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