Virginia, Leonard and Pinka Woolf. Here am I to tell you about the second two days of the virtual Virginia Woolf conference held a few weeks ago now for Thursday and Friday. She valued the dog. A cow loses her calf in the pageant and bellows in grief.
How are we to regard the suffering of animals. Our emphasis on and reverence for our ability to speak stands in the way of our communicating with animals. Accuracy of understanding precise meanings does not matter. With animals you can escape patriarchal norms. Body language and smell are ways of interacting. Everyone who spoke gave Woolf credit for a real relationship with her dogs β from the letters.
I knew that with people about cats vocalize a lot more. A photograph of Virginia Woolf in by Ottoline Morrell. At this point I had a conflict. Her talk was about the power of clothing, you place an exterior image in public between the world and your hidden self.
Clothes can be a shield. A pair of her spectacles have survived. I was therefore not able to participate in any of the mid-day round tables 2 hours each , and have not yet viewed the video recordings. I intend to do that and perhaps add a few words about them in the comments to this blog. The blogger lists a number of the biofictions discussed as well as a couple of recent brilliant biographies.
Peter Stansky spoke for a second time, now interestingly on the Dreadnought Hoax and separately Julian Bell the third plenary, pm. Prof Stansky wrote and revised recently a brilliant well researched biography: Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil war: Julian, the son of Vanessa and Clive was killed very quickly upon going to Spain; he was an ambulance driver.
