“ Male beauty in association with female beauty breeds in the onlooker a sense of fear. ”
Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room (1922). copy citation
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
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| Source | Jacob's Room |
| Topic | beauty association |
| Date | 1922 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5670/pg5670-images.html |
Context
“Rose was re-born every evening precisely as the clock struck eight. All four were civilization's triumphs, and if you persist that a command of the English language is part of our inheritance, one can only reply that beauty is almost always dumb. Male beauty in association with female beauty breeds in the onlooker a sense of fear. Often have I seen them—Helen and Jimmy—and likened them to ships adrift, and feared for my own little craft. Or again, have you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance? As she passed him his cup there was that quiver in her flanks.”
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