Woolf diaries

Today I bought Virginia Woolf's abridged diaries. She avidly wrote a diary, reading it is so interesting. She seems to be obsessive with vanity. Not the way she looks mind, more the way society looks. She has little habits of listing things, and she is always cleaning her silver cutlery.

The most prominent factor in the book is her big gaps of absence from writing, were the reader can only guess that being unwell has prohibited her from writing.

I have taken to writing notes of the things that she has written, like:

"One of the queer things about the suburbs is that the vilest little red villas are always let, and that not one of them has an open window, or an uncurtained window. One house had curtains of yellow silk, striped with lace insertation. The rooms must be in semi-darkness: and I suppose rank with the smell of meat and human beings. I believe that being curtained is a sign of respectability - Sophie used to insist upon it."

It's backwards.. Sorry.