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The Pure Bead of Life: A Birthday Ode to Virginia Woolf, by Mary Stein | Numéro Cinq
My first foray into the realm of Virginia Woolf involved an academically-traumatic experience of attempting to present an analysis of her essay, “The Death of the Moth,” before a high school English/Lit. class. In my esteem, Woolf was a literary archetype—a matriarch of the word (The Word) who created works of biblical proportion (this coming