Today's tune - Velvet Morning - thoughts

I absolutely love love love this song.  Going back to the age thing, what awes me especially and what I find totally remarkable is that someone as young as Richard Ashcroft was when he wrote this, could produce something so evocative and relatable for someone...well I was going to say 'of my age', however this song was written thirty years ago and I'm just ten years older than him, so...I wouldn't have ben that much older at the time.

This is getting overly complicated and I need another gallon of tea before I sort it out to have it make sense.    Having said that, perhaps it shows that there is surely an eternal thread that runs through us all and connects us regardless of where we happen to be on the space/time continuum.  

As you might notice I'm still very much in a 'Verve' and 'Virginia Woolf'  phase.  There are worse places, to be fair.   I will move on eventually...

Just read - To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)

 

This is such an amazing and wonderful book.   Actually it's more of an immersive experience than a book.  I didn't expect to enjoy it,  I approached it with caution, but I loved it and am sure I'll read it again.  I've now bought Mrs Dalloway and will read that next.  I'm also concurrently reading Angela Garnett's Deceived by Kindness, about her life growing up in the strange world of the Bloomsbury set.    It reads in a way very much like To the Lighthouse, and I am sure that Mrs Ramsay must have been based on Vanessa Bell.  

I'm sure this must have been discussed and written about ad infinitum, but I rarely read forewords and introductions,  I never read exegeses,  because I don't want to know what some supposedly learned person says I SHOULD think about a book.  I want to experience the book for myself, first hand, with no mental clutter.

Favourite quote from To the Lighthouse (regarding a witnessing of Mrs Ramsay's changing state of mind) 'something clear as the space which the clouds at last uncover -the little space of sky which sleeps beside the moon.'

What more can I say?   I love it.