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Virginia Woolf in a letter to John Lehmann about The Waves, which might also be applicable, at least partly, to the delights of To the Lighthouse:
“[...] a difficult attempt—I wanted to eliminate all detail; all fact; and analysis; and my self; and yet not be frigid and rhetorical; and not monotonous (which I am) and to keep the swiftness of prose and yet strike one or two sparks, and not write poetical, but purebred prose, and keep the elements of character; [...]”
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