YAY!

"As long as you are willing to come to my house I’ll be here- drinking coffee, stretching my dollars, watching library movies, dieting, running, boiling eggs, hand washing, sipping the cheapest boxed plonk and typing away -all in effort to keep writing."

living well is the best revenge

How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' hoaxed the navy. "When invited to dine with the officers they declined, in their version of Swahili – seemingly translated by Woolf's brother, Adrian Stephen – because the food and drink had not been prepared correctly. The group actually feared that their fake beards would fall off."

"Isaiah Berlin split intellectuals into two groups: foxes, who know a great deal about many things, and hedgehogs, who know one big thing. But I wonder if there isn’t a third type, too, mysterious and misunderstood: the individual who knows a great deal about one thing—and that thing is herself."

Virginia and Leonard announcing their engagement to Lytton Strachey 6th June 1912 via vwvw.

The first page of Nancy Mitford’s original Pursuit of Love manuscript via The Persephone Post.

Jarvis Cocker reading Richard Brautigan (MP3).