Virginia Woolf in Venice - mid April, 1932

from The diary of Virginia Woolf, page 90:

Out after the play, in the theatre slung with green glass beads, onto the black tossing water, so silent, so swaying: & the poor people asked us not to overpay the traghetto; & there were cactuses: & a man singing in the morning; [...] This is the magic we want: & magic there must be; so long as magic keeps its place. So on board our spacious orderly well found ship, now passing the coast of Italy.

cite as

Virginia Woolf, and Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (ed.), The diary of Virginia Woolf, volume 4 (Harmondsworth, ), p. 90. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1446303590858 accessed: 29 March, 2024

location of experience: Venice

Listeners

Virginia Woolf
Writer
1882-1941

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Experience Information

Date/Time mid April, 1932
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, outdoors, in public

Originally submitted by Jo Reardon on Sat, 31 Oct 2015 14:59:51 +0000
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 08:16:31 +0000