Picturing 1922: Echoes of the Past
"The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring".
What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?
Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, published 1922
‘You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
‘They called me the hyacinth girl.’
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
Od’ und leer das Meer.
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, published 1922
As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.
Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories, published 1922
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
James Joyce, Ulysses, published 1922
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I love 'The Critics', so much going on in that painting!
My favorites: a tie between The Critics and The Old Kitchen. I also liked Reading the News.