A SENTENCE BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

April 3, 2010

‘For the great plateful of blue water was before her; the hoary Lighthouse, distant, austere, in the midst; and on the right, as far as the eye could see, fading and falling, in soft low pleats, the green sand dunes with the wild flowing grasses on them, which always seemed to be running away into some moon country, uninhabited by man.’

Ginnie ranks high among the landscape describers. She’s generous with her sentences, often feeding them enough words to satisfy 8 or 9 Hemingway efforts.

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