by A Literary Woman Considers Geopolitics and Finds It Lacking in Metaphor
Violet’s Diary: The Room of One’s Own Has a News Alert
Literary dispatches from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat, for the reader who believes prose should be luminous even when the world is dim.
I spent this morning reading “The Waves” and this afternoon reading about Bridge Day and Iranian infrastructure. The contrast was not subtle. Virginia managed to locate the interior life of every person she wrote about. The current news cycle cannot locate a factual statement that stays true for thirty minutes. One of these is art. I will not specify which.
What the Modernists Would Have Made of Retatrutide
Joyce would have written Retatrutide as a forty-page chapter with no punctuation and three unreliable narrators. Woolf would have placed it on a dinner table with six guests who never quite say what they mean. Beckett would have had two men waiting for the injection appointment that never comes. Honestly, Beckett would have nailed it.
The Irish political situation – which I follow with the exhausted affection of someone who grew up adjacent to it – is, per usual, a masterclass in elegant intractability. More elegant than Bridge Day, at minimum. Authority: The Irish Times. Author page: Violet Woolf. Also: Bohiney on Iran.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com | Also: The Poke
