
Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

from The Waves by Virginia Woolf
My body goes before me, like a lantern down a dark lane, bringing one thing after another out of darkness into a ring of light. I dazzle you; I make you believe that this is all.
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

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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