{"id":4144,"date":"2023-09-14T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/virginia-woolf-on-how-to-hear-your-soul-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T00:42:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T04:42:12","slug":"virginia-woolf-on-how-to-hear-your-soul-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/virginia-woolf-on-how-to-hear-your-soul-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is an ongoing mystery: What makes you and your childhood self the same person<\/a>. Across a lifetime of physiological and psychological change, some center holds. Eudora Welty called it \u201cthe continuous thread of revelation.\u201d<\/a> Walt Whitman saw it as something \u201cindependent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal.\u201d<\/a> Complexity theory traces it to the quantum foam<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The best shorthand we have for it is soul<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne can\u2019t write directly about the soul. Looked at, it vanishes,\u201d Virginia Woolf<\/a> (January 25, 1882\u2013March 28, 1941) lamented in her diary. But writing directly about the soul, and with tremendous insight, is precisely what she does in a wonderful essay about the essays of Montaigne<\/a> \u2014 his epochal \u201cattempt to communicate a soul,\u201d a \u201cmiraculous adjustment of all these wayward parts that constitute the human soul\u201d \u2014 included in her classic Common Reader<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

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