A Room of One's Own Page #3
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- 1991
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women to be educated at all it is a very
great deal
so obviously we cannot have wine and
partridges and servants carrying tin
trays on their heads that my friend we
cannot have sofas and separate rooms
every penny that could be scraped
together
or set aside for the building the
amenities will have to wait
and so we talked standing at the window
looking down as many thousands do every
night on the domes and towers of the
famous city beneath us
the gentleman's colleges look very
beautiful very mysterious in the autumn
moonlight the old stone with white and
venerable I thought of all the books
that were assembled I'm heir of the
pictures of old credits and were these
hanging in panel drums of the painted
windows and the fountains and the grass
of the quiet rooms looking across
squired quadrangles
fund I thought to whom I must admit of
the admirable smoke drink of the deep
armchairs and pleasant carpets of the
urbanity the geniality the dignity which
are the offspring of luxury privacy and
space
certainly our mothers not provided us
with anything comparable to all this
our mothers who found it difficult to
raise 30,000 pounds no there could be no
doubt about it for some reason or other
our mothers had mismanaged their affairs
very gravely
penny could be spared for amenities the
partridges and why for beetles and turf
for books and cigars for libraries and
leisure
to raise bare walls out of the bare
earth was the most they could do
the inevitable sequel to that visit to
Cambridge had started a swarm of
questions in my mind which seemed to
demand unfortunately a visit to the
British Museum
why did men drink wine and women water
why was one sex of prosperous and the
other so poor what effect had poverty on
fiction what conditions are necessary
for the creation of works of art I need
answers not questions and an answer can
only be had by consulting the learner
and the competitors if truth cannot be
found among the shareholders of the
British Museum then where is truth I
wonder if you have any notion how many
books are written about women in the
course of one year have you any notion
how many are written by men are you
young women aware that you are perhaps
the most discussed animal in the
universe I thought there was I with
notebook and pencil proposing to spend a
morning reading and supposing that by
the end of the morning
I should have transferred the truth to
my notebook but I should need to be a
herd of elephants to cope with all this
in despair around my eyes up and down
the long list of titles sex in its
nature might well attract doctors and
biologists what was much more difficult
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