The Only Use of
Virginia Woolf
in
Turtles All the Way Down
- I want to share something Virginia Woolf wrote: 'English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache....The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.'†
p. 89.3
Definition:
English writer whose novels are known for their poetic and symbolic quality with an emphasis on psychology (1882-1941)