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Blunting the edge of her mind.

Posted on February 10, 2007 at 8:57 AM

'She had a sense of comedy that was really exquisite, but she needed people, always people, to bring it out, with the inevitable result that she frittered her time away, lunching, dining, giving these incessant parties of hers, talking nonsense, saying things she didn't mean, blunting the edge of her mind, losing her discrimination'

 

Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. (Wordsworth Editions Limited 1996)

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