donderdag 2 juni 2016

Af en toe een fragment - Virginia Woolf

Dearest,

I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight it any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. Can't read. What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life anymore.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

V.

Afscheidsbrief van Virginia Woolf aan haar echtgenoot Leonard Woolf.

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  1. dankje om dit te delen. het is alweer te lang geleden dat ik The Hours voor het laatst zag. Hoewel dit rauwe materie is vind ik het een prachtige brief, puur poëzie.

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    1. Absoluut! De vertolking van Kidman is subliem, ze klinkt en spreekt zoals Woolf dat zou hebben gedaan, althans in mijn verbeelding. Ik had haar graag de hele brief horen voorlezen.

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    1. Heb jij die brief in boekvorm? Waar heb jij die brief voor het eerst gelezen?

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