paperpagstan 's review for:

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

4.0

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"how many different people are there not - Heaven help us - all having lodgement at one time or another in the human spirit? (…) so that it is the most usual thing in the world for a person to call, directly they are alone, Orlando? meaning by that, Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another. (…) still the Orlando she needs may not come; these selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, have attachments elsewhere, sympathies, little constitutions and rights of their own (…) so that one will only come if it is raining, another in a room with green curtains, another when Mrs Jones is not there, another if you can promise it a glass of wine - and so on; for everybody can multiply from his own experiences the different terms which his different selves have made with him."

4.5/5