“Cows, he reflected, draw together in a field; ships in a calm;
\nand we’re just the same when we’ve nothing else to do. But why do
\nwe do it?- is it to prevent ourselves from seeing to the bottom
\nof things'[he stopped by a stream and began stirring it with
\nhis walking stick and clouding the water with mud], ‘ making
\ncities and mountains and whole universes out of nothing, or do
\nwe really love each other, or do we, on the other hand live
\nin a state of perpetual uncertainty, knowing nothing, leaping
\nfrom moment to moment as from world to world?- which is, on the
\nwhole, the view I’m inclined to”. Virginia Woolf.
\nFrom “The Voyage Out”, which I believe was her first novel.
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