Tag: woolf notes
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:
The world, as such, is understood as an ever-folding and unfolding multiplicity, of the infinite number of monads of which it is composed: a world is as many monads as it takes to make a world.
(…)We must give up trying to know those to whom we are linked by something essential; by this I mean, we must greet them in the relation with the unknown in which they greet us, as well, in our distance. Friendship, this relation without dependence, without episode yet into which all of the simplicity of life enters, passes by way of the recognition of the common strangeness that does not allow us to speak of our friends, but only to speak to them, not to make of them a topic of conversations (or articles), but the movement of understanding in which, speaking to us, they reserve, even on the most familiar terms, an infinite distance, the fundamental separation on the basis of which what separates becomes relation. Here discretion is not in the simple refusal to put forward confidences (how vulgar that would be, even to think of it), but it is the interval, the pure interval that, from me to this other who is a friend, measures all that is between us, the interruption of being that never authorizes me to use him, or my knowledge of him (where it to praise him) and which, far from preventing all communication, relates us to one another in the difference and sometimes the silence of speech.(…)
Jacques Derrida, “Politics of Friendship”, p. 386-387
Little Bristling Soul 