Thursday, July 14, 2011

Daily Dose

From Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892 - 1956, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis

FREAKS

"But I believe I could say a word in favor of freaks in general. After all, there is Tristam Shandy, Gryll Grange, Zuleika Dobson: all my favorite works: and none of them quite in the Tom, Dick, and Chaucer, Thackeray, Harry, Homer tradition, are they?"

From a letter from Virginia Woolf, dated 29, January, 1926, in response to the one from Max Beerbohm, quoted below

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