Which literature classic are you?
Virginia Woolf: Orlando. You are a challenge, for outer events, the outside world, the time etc. play no importance to you. Your focus is in writing, in gender issues, and inside your own head. Self-analysis and exploration of yourself as well as the outer world hold great importance to you.
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One can never be sure. I am, and decidedly so, unfamiliar with Missy Woolf. And, any notions regarding sex or gender have been settled into a very formal traditional notion, with a decent smattering of religious connotation. Or, perhaps, that last is the other way around, it is difficult to sort. The rest of the quiz result seems up to snuff. If any of you know anything about Woolf, I am curious now.
Gee, I am addicted.
Oh, and I stole this from here. I wonder if he would trade though. I doubt it...
I took the test at Bane's.
ReplyDeleteGot the same as he... and, so did Sparrow.
I've tried a bit of Virginia W.
Didn't much care for her, but I might try again. Someday.
Virginia Woolf is an interesting character. She hung around with folks like John Maynard Keynes (the world-changing economist - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes). She committed suicide by walking into the ocean with stones in her pockets.
ReplyDeleteShe was vituperously ridiculed and dismissed by many, especially men. She spoke her mind and saw no reason women should be granted less liberty and choices than men. This rattled a lot of cages. I mean, many people found her extremely threatening. I can't emphasize this enough: she, for simply speaking her differing opinions aloud and unembarrassed, was vilified and excoriated to an astonishing degree.
Her writing style is unusual and often difficult to handle. But once you get used to it? there are moments of extraordinary beauty and clarity in there, bits that can stick to your heart and spark in your soul forever.
She was an artist, and I believe she was a great artist.
jean,
ReplyDeleteWhoever wrote that put some thought into it. I cannot say that it is accurate, but I will say it is interesting.
k,
Put that way, she does prove potentially interesting. Still, there are many who wish a voice and yet have not earned it. Here in bloggersville, we may say our piece uninterrupted. If we have weight, we may be read. Otherwise, we will sit and stew. When I hear that a woman is feared, I often find the truth not to be so... simple. I seek smart women, so long as they are functional and feminine, and functionally feminine, life is good. What I "fear" is a woman who talks about that which she does not know, but that "fear" extends to all people.
Odd that I would be linked with her. Do you see anything in that regard?
Perhaps because you are outspoken, as she was.
ReplyDeletek - sometimes a writer's life is more interesting to me than what they write. Not unusual for me to read a bio/autobio before I've read any of their works. Weird, perhaps. Maybe I'm looking more for a connection to a lifestyle than the creativity...?
Outspoken? Me? Really... Ok. I guess I just do not see it. I will have to think about that. I guess I always thought that I just am and just say. I didn't realize, well, that...
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