mark hussey on virginia woolf

The draft—as is usual in Woolf’s work—is more explicit about the dream state: a note written as a reminder of what has still to be composed reads:

Another plan for the section reads:

The status of draft material should not be taken for granted in reading a published text; however, it is of particular help in reading The Waves as revisions are nearly always contractions or deletions. One further plan reads: 

William Wordsworth, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf in The Waves, Alice Oswald, Jean Dubuffet in his “Anticultural Position” speech, Simone Weil in Gravity and Grace