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  1. Feb 2020
    1. insinuations

      Insinuate (noun; )

      1.to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way;

      1. to introduce (someone, such as oneself) by stealthy, smooth, or artful means
    2. Whitakers XWhitakersWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Two Stories. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1917.Whitaker'sWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. 2nd ed. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919.Whitaker'sWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Monday or Tuesday. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921.Whitaker'sWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Monday or Tuesday. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1921.Whitaker'sWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1944.Whitaker'sWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Press, 2012. Print. Reprint of Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. London: Hogarth Press, 1944. Almanack

      Whitaker's is a reference book, published annually in the United Kingdom. The book was originally published by J Whitaker & Sons from 1868 to 1997, then by The Stationery Office until 2003, and then by A & C Black which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Bloomsbury Publishing in 2011. The 152nd edition of Whitaker's was published on 14 November 2019.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitaker%27s_Almanack

    3. I looked up through the smoke of my cigarette and my eye lodged for a moment upon the burning coals, and that old fancy of the crimson flag flapping from the castle tower came into my mind, and I thought of the cavalcade of red knights riding up the side of the black rock

      If what the materialist did was to portray stream of the outside environment to its extreme, then could we say that stream of consciousness is the detailed portray of inner thoughts that are building off of the subjects that already exist in the environment? We could say that for the stream of consciousness, the subjects being portrayed are more mundane, but I also do not believe that in the materialists' writings everything is being commodified, the extravagance that they have portrayed could be another type of "mundane" for some people.

    1. Mr Bennett

      Virginia Woolf published an essay Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown in 1924 as her manifesto for her view of modern writing. She accused Mr. Bennett and many other Edwardian writers for writing in a way that only portrayed characters by very materialist means. What do they wear, eat, use. How rich they are. For Woolf, a "real" character should be made up of emotions, thoughts, impressions.

      https://interestingliterature.com/2017/10/a-short-introduction-to-woolfs-mr-bennett-and-mrs-brown/

    2. quarrelling

      Quarrel (noun)

      an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/quarrelling

    3. modern practice of the art is somehow an improvement upon the old

      Is every creation an improvement upon the old? Even if the intention is trying to oppose or to totally throw over the old, could it still be called an "improvement"?