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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West written c. March 1928

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Hello, my lovely followers! If you have the time, why don’t you give my essay on the transformation of the haunted house motif from Victorian gothic literary tradition to modern lyrics and poetry? The echoes of Clytemnestra, The Castle of Otranto, Jude the Obscure, Ibsen’s Rosmersholm, Radiohead, Florence Welch and Tumblr poetry will guide you through this read. And don’t we all dream of a little attic of our own for setting up altars to the dead?

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I think sitting on the floor of the ocean for a few hours would fix me

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Hi, lovely followers! Inspired by my dear friend, I decided to create an account on Substack to post my original writing. I am exploring the idea of writing essays, literary nonfiction, memoirs, poetic prose and a bit of my own creative writing in fiction. My recurrent themes are introspection, memory, water, philosophy, dreamscapes, solitude, the feminine and queer interiority.

This post is my first personal and literary essay on my favourite symbols: bodies of water. I talk about how Virginia Woolf, my mother’s bathtub, an indoors pool in the middle of the staircase from a dream, Patti Smith, Bertolt Brecht, and Empress Elisabeth of Austria helped me create and define my inner mythos as a writer.

I would love it if this essay reached someone who would enjoy reading what I have to say!

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Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

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Histoire(s) du cinéma: 3B Une vague nouvelle by Jean-Luc Godard

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Swan, Rush, and Iris (design for a dado wallpaper), Walter Crane, 1875

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Giovanni Dupré, “Saffo abbandonata” (𝟣𝟪𝟨𝟣)

“Mirabile è quel guardo della Saffo; quand'uno l'ha veduto una volta, e gli si ficca nell'immaginazione e non si può dimenticare.” — Augusto Conti Eng · “Admirable is that look of Sappho's; when you’ve seen it once, it sticks in your imagination and cannot be forgotten.”

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Letter from Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West

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Fanciulla Che Scrive, c. 1874. Giovanni Spertini (Italian, 1821-1895)

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The kiss sculpture in Vienna Central cemetery

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August 31, 1934 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941) originally published: 1933

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Forgotten by the world, but not by nature.

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Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf written in December 1926

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Alexandre Schoenewerk, La jeune Tarentine (𝟣𝟪𝟩𝟣)