“ The body is harnessed to a brain. Beauty goes hand in hand with stupidity. ”
Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room (1922). copy citation
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
|---|---|
| Source | Jacob's Room |
| Topic | stupidity beauty |
| Date | 1922 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5670/pg5670-images.html |
Context
“And so on again into the dark, passing a girl here for sale, or there an old woman with only matches to offer, passing the crowd from the Tube station, the women with veiled hair, passing at length no one but shut doors, carved door-posts, and a solitary policeman, Jacob, with Florinda on his arm, reached his room and, lighting the lamp, said nothing at all.
"I don't like you when you look like that," said Florinda.
The problem is insoluble. The body is harnessed to a brain. Beauty goes hand in hand with stupidity. There she sat staring at the fire as she had stared at the broken mustard-pot. In spite of defending indecency, Jacob doubted whether he liked it in the raw. He had a violent reversion towards male society, cloistered rooms, and the works of the classics;”
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