in London - mid June, 1927
from The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.3, 1925-30, page 139:
Now the moths will I think fill out the skeleton which I dashed in here: the play-poem idea: the idea of some continuous stream, not solely of human thought, but of the ship, the night &c, all flowing together: intersected by the arrival of the bright moths. A man & a woman are to be sitting at table talking. Or shall they remain silent? It is to be a love story: she is finally to let the great moth in...But it needs ripening. I do a little work on it in the evening when the gramophone is playing late Beethoven sonatas. (The windows fidget at their fastenings as if… more >>
Virginia Woolf, and Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.3, 1925-30 (Harmondsworth, 1982), p. 139. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444741070173 accessed: 10 December, 2024
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Sonatas
written by Beethoven |
Experience Information
Date/Time | mid June, 1927 |
Medium | playback |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Notes
The 'play-poem idea' was Woolf's novel 'The Waves'.