#FunFacts about the film adaptation of Orlando, by Sally Porter, starring Tilda Swinton.

The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminatios, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

The typewriter calls you instinctively Darling

April 6th. Oh I’m so tired!

#OnThisDay 83 years ago, Virginia Woolf died.

But she left us a legacy that will reverberate for centuries.

People are— nothing more.

I see myself as a fish in a stream; deflected; held in place; but cannot describe the stream.

Vita Sackville-West over Virginia Woolf, 2019
by Melora Kuhn
© melorakuhn.net/artwork/451914…

I’ve been so buried under with dust and rubbish. But now here’s to spring…

In her curious condition of unanalysed sensations she was incapable of making a plan which should have any effect upon her state of mind. She abandoned herself to the mercy of accidents,

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

#OnThisDay 132 years ago, Vita Sackville-West was born.

Picture below: Vita as “Orlando about the Year 1840”, from “Orlando: A Biography” by Virginia Woolf.

“Praise God that I’m a woman!” — Orlando
Happy #InternationalWomensDay

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

It was March and the wind was blowing. But it was not “blowing.” It was scraping, scourging. It was so cruel. So unbecoming.

I think I won’t come on Thursday for this reason; I must get on with writing; you would seduce me completely;