{"id":98,"date":"2006-11-03T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T12:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2006-11-03T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T12:32:57","slug":"98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/03\/98\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Grumpy Vegan just finished Julia Briggs’ Virginia Woolf–An inner life<\/em>. This is a stupendous book<\/a>. Part biography and part literary criticism, each chapter focuses on one or more of Virginia’s fiction and nonfiction. It’s a brilliant insight into Virginia’s creative process. Briggs’ writes with great insight.<\/p>\n

As the guardians and interpreters of culture, artists are or become peculiarly receptive, or vulnerable to their times. Though Woolf did not believe in a personal God, “A Sketch of the Past” shows that she did believe in some kind of ‘world soul’ embodied in beauty, form and meaning, and transmitted by great artists: ‘all human beings — are connected with this; … the whole world is a work of art; … we are parts of the works of art … we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.’ But if we are the words and the music, we must also participate in evil creations — in bombs, concentration camps and gas chambers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Grumpy Vegan just finished Julia Briggs’ Virginia Woolf–An inner life. This is a stupendous book. Part biography and part literary criticism, each chapter focuses on one or more of Virginia’s fiction and nonfiction. It’s a brilliant insight into Virginia’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[17,24],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-grumpy-vegan-life","category-thinking","tag-books","tag-glimpses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}