Robert Musil 'The Man Without Qualities'

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If you happen to be a heterosexual male, you are not the audience that Virginia Woolf was writing for.

Really? I suppose that means I shouldn't've been reading her work with such pleasure for the past thirty-odd years? Crumbs - thank heavens nobody told me this before. Rebel that I am, I think I'll carry on regardless.

She had no interest in you, your opinions, or your existence.

Well, as she died nineteen years before my own existence began, I can hardly demand this of her. I make up for her neglect in this matter by my being very interested in her work.