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Jun 25, 2009 · MONDAY OR TUESDAY. [Pg 2] [Pg 3] A HAUNTED HOUSE. Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure—a ghostly couple. "Here we left it," she said. And he added, "Oh, but here too!" "It's upstairs," she murmured. "And in the garden," he whispered.
Monday or Tuesday is a 1921 short story collection by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press. 1000 copies were printed with four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Leonard Woolf called it one of the worst printed books ever published because of the typographical mistakes in it.
- Virginia Woolf
- 1921
A prose poem about a writer's quest for truth and honesty in her writing, using the heron and the sky as symbols. The story explores disorientation, distraction, and the difficulty of capturing fleeting impressions in modernist fiction.
Jun 4, 2019 · A summary and analysis of Woolf's experimental sketch, which explores the themes of truth, language, and perception. The story follows a narrator's observations of a heron, a church, and the city of London over the course of a day.
Monday or Tuesday is a brilliant and striking series of impressions, written in Woolf’s characteristic lyrical and startling prose. My Review: This short book, only 54pp in my Dover Thrift Edition, is the best and the worst of La Woolf.
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Jun 25, 2009 · Contents. A haunted house -- A society -- Monday or Tuesday -- An unwritten novel -- The string quartet -- Blue & green -- Kew Gardens -- The mark on the wall. Credits. Produced by Meredith Bach, Martin Pettit and the Online.
Monday or Tuesday. Virginia woolf. LAZY and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains. A lake? Blot the shores of it out! A mountain? Oh, perfect—the sun gold on its slopes.
