Useless quote for 19 August:

"... The birds are restless underneath the eaves,
Down in the byre the uneasy cattle stir,
And through the fret of branches grows the dawn."

~ Vita Sackville-West, 1921

#UselessQuote #VitaSackvilleWest

(From her poem, 'Night' in "Orchard and Vineyard")

daily VW: i aspire to this lesbian dog energy

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June 2, 1962: English poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West died at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, aged seventy. Born at Knole House in Kent to Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville, and Victoria Sackville-Wes, she was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist who published more than a dozen collections of poetry as well as thirteen novels during her lifetime. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature. She was the inspiration for the androgynous protagonist of 'Orlando: A Biography', by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/who-was-vita-sackville-west

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daily VW: this leztastic letter from #VirginiaWoolf to #VitaSackvilleWest. Nessa (Vanessa Bell) was VW's sister, with whom she was very close, and who was none too chaste herself.

"I told Nessa the story of our passion, in the chemist's shop the other day. 'But do you really like going to bed with women?' she said, taking her change. 'And how d'you do it?' And so she bought her pills to take abroad, talking loudly as a parrot."

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say 'this house is gay' with one look at your shelf

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#VirginiaWoolf #VitaSackvilleWest #AlisonBechdel

A review of #VitaSackvilleWest's short nonfiction 'Nursery Rhymes: an Essay' (1947) for #NovNov #NovellasInNovember.

RT @calmgrove@twitter.com

Appreciating the preposterous https://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2022/11/16/appreciating-the-preposterous/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/calmgrove/status/1592759656287334400

📖 #Lecture Vita Sackville-West: «Nous sommes incapables d’apprendre»

Et si, en 1942, l’Allemagne nazie, vainqueur sur l’Europe, avait signé un traité de paix avec les États-Unis, obligeant des Européens à migrer vers le pays de l’Oncle Sam? C’est ce qu’imagine #VitaSackvilleWest, dans son roman «#GrandCanyon», traduit pour la première fois en français, 80 ans après la publication originale.

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/220522/vita-sackville-west-nous-sommes-incapables-d-apprendre

📖 #Lecture Vita Sackville-West: «Nous sommes incapables d’apprendre»

Et si, en 1942, l’Allemagne nazie, vainqueur sur l’Europe, avait signé un traité de paix avec les États-Unis, obligeant des Européens à migrer vers le pays de l’Oncle Sam? C’est ce qu’imagine #VitaSackvilleWest, dans son roman «#GrandCanyon», traduit pour la première fois en français, 80 ans après la publication originale.

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/220522/vita-sackville-west-nous-sommes-incapables-d-apprendre

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all #VitaSackvilleWest