Tuesday, July 08, 2008

On this day in literature

Eliot and the Woolfs:
"On this day in 1923, Virginia Woolf wrote to a friend that 'I have just finished setting up the whole of Mr. Eliots [sic] poem with my own hands -- you see how my hand trembles.' Though referring to the typesetting of the first English edition of The Waste Land, Woolf's trembling was due to exhaustion rather than any presage of the moment's importance."

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