It’s International Book Week. Or so the Internet meme goes. According to this meme, readers are asked
to grab the closest book to them, turn to page 52 and post the fifth sentence as their status.
Trouble is that there is no such thing as International Book Week.
Let’s play along anyway, but with a Woolfian twist.
The rules: Grab the closest book by Virginia Woolf. Turn to page 52 and post the 5th sentence as your status. Don’t mention the title.
Add your sentence in the Comments section below this post. And see if you can guess which work of Woolf the quotes are from.
I’ll start:
The point broke.
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Thanks for playing along, everyone!
They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose.
I do know this one. It’s from Orlando. Strangely enough I mentioned this to a my daughter not so long ago while we watched a nature TV programme where they demonstrated the use of fireflies to help one read.
Close, Christopher, but not exactly exact. It’s from ” A Writer’s Diary, being extracts from the diary of VW”, Leonard Woolf, Editor. Such a lark!
Story of my life, close but no cigar.
Miss Mary Butts being gone, and my head too stupid for reading, I may as well write here, for my amusement later perhaps.
Well Mary Butts was a writer whom Woolf disliked if I remember correctly. So i’m guessing at one of Woolf’s diaries.
and aimless movement passed the flower-bed and were enveloped…
Kew Gardens, Cheryl?
I think, Christopher, that the quote comes from A Voyage Out. Here’s mine: “I want to read Byron’s letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves.”
You’re correct Judith, well done. I don’t think you’re quote is from a novel so I am going to say it’s from Quentin Bell’s biography of Virginia Woolf. As for your quote Cheryl I am at a loss. I will take a stab at it being from Jacob’s Room.
Judith, is your quote from Woolf’s Diary?
I will guess the quote, “The point broke” is from Orlando. My quote is,
“He’s a bore when he talks about currents,” said Rachel.
“Orlando” is a good guess for “The point broke,” Christopher, but the correct answer is “The Years.” Sorry for such a difficult quote to identify, but it was the first Woolf book at hand.