Virginia Woolf: The Stream of Modernist Creation

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Night and Day / 116056.night_and_day
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[@hutchisopinion7603]

May i request one on Erik Jan Hannusen

[@reneearwen]

I would love to see a video on Owain Glyndwr!

[@thevozhd9846]

May i request one on Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar (AKA: Babasaheb), he was the architect of the Indian constitution, he was also an activist for caste equality

[@ardenalexa94]

I will never understand people who are mean to people for being uncomfortable with sex cause of abuse. Abuse victims need compassion not judgement. Her brother, George and others who abused her were garbage. I feel so bad for her.

[@twilso9]

I’m currently getting my masters in novel writing and we are in the middle of our Virginia Woolf portion of the semester….. Good luck to anyone who decides to read Mrs. Dalloway…. half of the class was ready to give up on school as a whole. You’ll read it twice and still be confused. Long live Mrs. Woolf, for we still struggle to understand her genius a century later.

[@bobfg3130]

Or maybe it's just difficult to comprehend.

[@murrayscott9546]

close doors, open windows

[@soundpictures93]

Read it on dexamphetamines haha all makes sense then

[@Penthai9]

I first read Mrs. Dollaway when I was in the university in my language, Thai, and let's tell you it is even more confusing in my language that I had to gave up. I will try again in english, and let's see hahaha.

[@killa3x]

It's garbage. Literary types just like it cuz it is confusing and makes no sense so they feel smart.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:05 - Chapter 1 - A crowded house 5:30 - Chapter 2 - Seasons in the abyss 11:50 - Chapter 3 - Pressing on ! 16:35 - Chapter 4 - Virginia's room - Chapter 5 - - Chapter 6 -

[@AC8X]

More about Vita Sackville-West: She was a hopeless romantic and would run off for months at a time on adventures with her female lovers, much to the dismay of her aristocrat mother, who'd drag her back to polite society. Her openness about her sexuality was impressive for the time and made her a comedically ineffective beard for her husband. After meeting and becoming enamored with Virginia Woolf, Vita switched to publishing her own books through Hogarth Press, which is what really caused the business to take off and gave Virginia enough of a safety net to be more daring with her writing. Their decade-long relationship coincides with the peak of both women's creative careers. In her lifetime, Vita was more commercially successful than Virginia, but she was also the first to call her writing garbage compared to Virginia's. She was compassionate and encouraging and was, by Virginia's own account, singularly responsible for helping Virginia heal from her trauma and drastically improve her terrible self-image. The Lighthouse is partly inspired by how desperately Virginia missed Vita when she was away, and it's no coincidence that A Room Of One's Own challenged the same patriarchal constructs that prevented Vita from inheriting her family's estate because of her gender. If you look at the way we talk about Virginia Woolf, it's no wonder why people with mental illness have such difficult lives. There's plenty of discussion of her abuse and how it may have impacted her mental state. The frankly awful way her husband handled her trauma is glossed over or forgotten. Meanwhile, there's little recognition and no celebration of the person who actually helped and supported her in a way that made a difference.

[@areiaaphrodite]

When you read her suicide note to her husband, you can feel every bit of emotional exhaustion she felt and her need to be released from her tribulations. Poor thing but what a brilliant woman.

[@cheyenne6913]

Every time I read or hear her note, it immediately makes me cry. As someone who struggles with mental illness, seeing the impact of your illness on your loved ones and relationships can be so devastating. It's so easy to feel like a burden even though she was so clearly loved and supported.

[@areiaaphrodite]

@@cheyenne6913 The feeling is mutual. I share in both your struggle and hers. Sending you love, hope and understanding ❤️

[@kaiyote7924]

it gets tiring to try to convey just how mentally damning certain social practices and restrictive boxes are to a mind. its tiring to hear people say that women are mentally not strong enough when the clear and obvious causation for mental distress directly stems from these forced social constraints and violations of physical and labor autonomy.

[@christineparis5607]

I'm in my 60s, and disorders like CPTSD can get really old as I age. I always thought as I aged, I would work things out and be free of it, but that's not how it works, most of the time. Learning to accept yourself, good and bad, is key, and not comparing yourself to those who seem "normal"...I have many books about Virginia and her family and friends, and the whole extended family had mental disorders. Virginia's uncle was truly insane, and would come to the house to attack her older stepsister, Stella, thinking that they were in love. The abuse that Stella endured was considered just dealing with things women had to do...Stella believed that sex was a violation and put off marriage as long as possible. In that family, only other women could be trusted, and all the girls experienced positive reinforcement only with each other. Virginia wasn't committed to a gay lifestyle, or identified a sapphic, (except in a wry, self deprecating manner), and her sister, Vanessa, was the only person whom she could love without shame. She was so jealous of Vanessa that she tried to sleep with Vanessa's husband, Clive. She was guilty over this betrayal of the sisters trust, according to Vanessa's daughter, and Vanessa never forgave her. It came between them all the rest of their lives. So terribly sad.

[@areiaaphrodite]

@homo sexual feminine male whistleblower confesion well darling, there are things called "possessive nouns" in English grammar that tend to be required in making a sentence grammatically correct and universally understood by other English speakers, in case you weren't aware. You can't just say "THE husband" in every instance. I.E. "The husband". Whose husband? The one married to Virginia Woolf. Either way, calling him "HER husband" or "Virginia's husband" is both correct and a requirement. I'm sorry you're letting your personal politically correct stance on... nonsense... affect the way you read and perceive a sentence.

[@ethanramos4441]

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people” Virginia Woolf

[@flamencoprof]

I had a Virginia Woolf phase about twenty years ago, I think prompted by the movie "The Hours". I bought and read some of her books. I was most impressed by The Waves; as mentioned here, it was her insightful evocation of the characters through their mundane thoughts. It made me realise just how much "internal monologue" or "unconscious bias" had been going on in my own mind.

[@rifan_j]

Just finished reading To The Lighthouse a few hours ago and this is definitely the latest Woolf content that I'm very grateful to find. Loved it. Thank you!

[@jaxsonlzimmerman5523]

Finish this month off with Agatha Christie

[@callmej5337]

I hope we'll have one on Jane Austen one day. Thank you for that.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@masteryeet3600]

I’d recommend going into Russian novelists like Dostoevsky or Tolstoy; I’m biased but I’d say Dostoevsky is the best. Hi again. I should probably mention the reason(s) why I’m biased and have a propensity toward Dostoevsky; that reason is quite simple, I simply haven’t had the opportunity to delve into Tolstoy’s work as of now; but trust me I will almost inevitably get my hands on one of his novels, be it Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich or (god forbid) War and Peace. As for Dostoevsky I’ve just concluded Crime and Punishment and have read a collection of his short fiction which includes cherished stories such as Notes From Underground, White Nights and 17 others. And the receiving of The Idiot is inevitable so my mind is firmly fixed on Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky for now; however I will get round to Tolstoy eventually, I just need to read some more Dostoevsky. And I’ll be continuing my literalistic journey by indulging in authors such as Poe, Gogol, Camus, Sartre, Schopenhauer etc. I have such fierce determination to widen not only my literary scope; but my philosophical one too; as although I’m only 16, many people think I’m already a future intellectual; which I will hasten to not comment on. Sorry if this just seems like one massive tangent, but to rectify my statement; I will read Leo Tolstoy’s work, I just don’t know when. Goodbye :)

[@Dank-gb6jn]

Dostoevsky would be cool, although I enjoyed more of Tolstoy’s work.

[@me0101001000]

I really hope these would be covered together. Dostoevsky and Tolstoy has a fascinating debate on translation. Dostoevsky argued that translation should make it as easy to read in the secondary language as possible, even if some cultural elements of the piece are lost in translation. Tolstoy argued that the translation cannot sacrifice cultural nuances from the original language, even if at the expense of making the literature more inaccessible.

[@hbeachley]

Over the last 6 or so years Russian writers have really soothed me. Russian people have survived much worse than Putin.

[@QUARTERMASTEREMI6]

Please don't forget Tolstoy!

[@piotrzagroba5301]

I'd go for Bulhakov tbh

[@ravenhill_firelord_1968]

now this is more like it, historical stuff, very good.

[@bigpeeler]

Indeed.

[@armandotalampas4800]

I love Nicole Kidman when she played Virginia Woolf in the award-winning drama "The Hours"(2003). The movie won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in a Drama. Kidman received Best Actress Awards in the Globes and the Oscars

[@me0101001000]

I really hope to get Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson soon. Transcendentalism is a really beautiful ideology, and Unitarianism is my favorite form of Christianity.

[@harrisonmiller6475]

Can you do one on the famous but controveral poet Ezra Pound?

[@rickysorhaindo1359]

A pioneer for the feminist movement, very troubled individual but a excellent writer, a credit to literature 👍👍. Simon could you do a biography on the writer Jean Rhys, another troubled individual but excellent writer and one of my favourites, I'm sure you viewer's would be interested in her life story.

[@GrubStLodger]

I got into Virginia Woolf last year, she's so much warmer and engaging than I expected.

[@scumteet]

Nice job, Simon. Thanks for making this one.

[@audreyannslade]

Okay. The John Green intro was one of the most John Greenesque things I have ever heard come out of someone’s mouth that wasn’t John Green.

[@bigpeeler]

Many thanks for this Biographic. I was so anticipating this. Very well done.

[@jaylu0717]

More like these please! Perhaps Gertrude Stein?

[@wendychavez5348]

I knew Virginia Woolf had contributed tons to my life, both in literature and otherwise, though I hadn't realized the full extent of it until now! Thanks again, Simon, for condensing it all into 20 minutes of easy-to-comprehend tidbits!

[@lesliegordon2313]

Simon, your delivery is so crisp and refreshing. Pure pleasure in whatever topic you discuss. I'm always learning from your channel. Keep up the splendid work you do.

[@majaber1]

Virginia Wolfe, what a great and sad loss to the world that she died before her time. Her writing captures what the french philosophers call the big unknown....referring to the nature of reality - which also embodies the essence of our true nature. VW describes and captures it so well, sublime, poetic and beautiful. Her brilliant illumination of how patriarchy has led humanity into successive wars and all of the senseless destruction of people and beauty. Looking around the world today, especially in America, we see rumblings of authoritarianism/fascism rise again, attempting to stamp out anything and anybody that stands in the way of its pursuit of power, including democracy.

[@invincibleluis]

She sounded like an amazing person but very unlucky in life.

[@brandonorgeron143]

Great video!

[@musiclover01ization]

Could you do a video on Norman Rockwell?

[@yocharlysurf]

seriously loving the bio’s on writers

[@chrismansa585]

My new favorite channel on KZbin

[@flamencoprof]

Please do another strong woman writer: Anaïs Nin. a very complex character, and as brave and frank as Virginia.

[@Angel_1394]

I never knew so much about her. She was truly amazing and strong.

[@NoName-de1fn]

Keep them Biographics coming

[@willhovell9019]

Can't wait to hear Simon's unique occasional mispronunciation, and use of" ironically". 😂

[@nadousha22]

Impressive work. Super duper professional. Could you please make a video about her author friend Katherine Mansfield? @Biographics

[@DiracComb.7585]

0:25 you’re one to talk Mr. 10 KZbin channels Whistler

[@sandybarnes887]

13 channels

[@twocvbloke]

It's sad that the husband had a plan of suicide if the nazis invaded britain, but she considered herself "too busy" to go along with it, but ultimately, she ended up taking her own life regardless, it's sad when people are so desperately low with their mental health that they take such measures... :(

[@lesliegordon2313]

Indeed. Virginia's actual suicide note is heart-rending. I wept the first time I read it. So desperately sad.

[@btetschner]

A+ video! It is much easier to understand her life after watching this.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@annikboyer3395]

It is nice! I wanted to learn more about her.

[@lukaslundstrom5221]

You should make a video on Skanderbeg.

[@livrowland171]

Funny to hear Simon make remarks at the start about how much John Green somehow does.. Was just thinking how Simon himself pops up on all sorts of Channels and must be a very busy chap

[@Dank-gb6jn]

Humbly requesting George Carlin. A comedian and satirist who oftentimes hit the nail more than just on the head; and whose bits were infinitely more than just satire. The guy was a comedian, satirist, begrudged philosopher, and even the voice of Thomas the Train.

[@andyserri]

Do you have this just copy pasted for every time Simon posts a video?

[@jeeee3f]

@@andyserri more influential than a lot of others 🤷‍♂️ I'd like to see it too

[@Dank-gb6jn]

@@andyserri maybe I do, maybe I don’t. The guy who talked about the air show team or what-have you, likely copied and pasted his comment. I’m just lobbying for what content I want to see.

[@ennuiblue4295]

@@andyserri why not? Never hurts to ask, and comments help the algorithm anyway

[@Dr.RichardBanks]

Comedians are under represented here for sure. I'd welcome almost any of them. Minus like Cosby or something 😬

[@hanglee5586]

Love her ghost stories

[@JaleDoris]

She is one of my favorite authors but really the only thing I knew about her were memes until now. Thanks FactBoy.

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Please do one about William of Orange

[@me0101001000]

I'm really surprised he hasn't been done yet

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

@@me0101001000 Indeed. Not one of them. Not William The Silent. Not William I. Not even William III or the… other… William III.

[@willo2032]

A request for Eamon de Valera, former Taoiseach of Ireland. Love the content

[@joesantos2455]

What a courageous woman! She had the nerve to marry a litigator instead of a ...poet. of course, as we know, when it comes 2 poets, money is NO object! Meaning, of course, that it is literally not there. Haaaaaaa

[@bhandlon]

Incredible

[@jackpayne4658]

She reminds me very much of the advice, 'Trust the tale, not the teller' (DH Lawrence?). I'm repelled by her malignant contempt for anyone who, in her opinion, was her social or intellectual inferior.

[@thehumanconsensus]

Simon questioning how John Green has time to do more than write books made me laugh. Didn't you just make yet ANOTHER channel Whistle boy? That's 4 new ones in the past year!

[@Jac-gu3nt]

I would like to see a video about roy cohn

[@spirakos4767]

Make a video about Skenderbeg one of the greatest tacticians of war

[@amandajones661]

Dang... Ending this video with one of my childhood favorite hymns was a rough ending for me.

[@InquisitorThomas]

If this video doesn’t include a mention of the Dreadnaught Incident where Virginia joined in a prank to pretend to be an Ethiopian Dignitary on a diplomatic trip to inspect the HMS Dreadnought I’m going to be incredibly disappointed.

[@arnaldoteodorani277]

Dear Inquisitor. I was the researcher and author for this episode. Unfortunately, it was already too long and I had to cut the Dreadnought hoax. However, despair not. That event will be covered in a future Bio about the brains behind the hoax, legendary prankster Horace de Vere Cole. I hope this will dampen the fiery pyre of your disappointment.

[@QUARTERMASTEREMI6]

@@arnaldoteodorani277 Regardless, thank you for all and everything you do! ❤️

[@amandajones661]

@@arnaldoteodorani277 I love this answer so much and shows why you're such an amazing writer.

[@arnaldoteodorani277]

@@QUARTERMASTEREMI6 No problem, thank you for your kind words, and for watching!

[@arnaldoteodorani277]

@@amandajones661 Thank you, not sure about the amazing, but I hope you enjoyed the episode! And make sure you watch the one about Horace de Vere, the Dreadnought hoax is such a great story!

[@Jeremyramone]

Ambrose Bierce would be outstanding though I won't hold my breath.

[@karltheplaya]

Should do one for Albert Camus!

[@corgeousgeorge]

Hmm, I wonder if the TV show on the BBC "Years and Years" was based on "The years" as it follows a similar structure.

[@sliveredtongue]

Simon shading John Green when Simon has how many channels on KZbin? Very classic.

[@claudiaigsa6900]

I didn't expect John Green to be mentioned in this video but I welcome it hahahha

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

Speaking of famous female writers who committed suicide and wrote amazing works, it's appropriate we query a video about Sylvia Plath

[@stephenbriandeleon5119]

Please make a biographics about Sylvia Plath

[@Monstro732]

Can you do one on Andrew Jackson

[@ennuiblue4295]

She referred to her husband as 'penniless'? Woah, I don't care what anyone says, even if every life has hardship, never having to work always cushions the blow. Like the quote says 'I've been poor and I've been rich. Rich is better'. I guess it's disputed who said it first

[@aintmisbehavin7400]

LOL @ John Green joke. Hmmm, who do we know who's also prolific in content creation? 🤔

[@wendychavez5348]

John Greene: Aspiring to be like Simon Whistler!

[@jaxsonlzimmerman5523]

I also want to add Joan Rivers, Helen Keller, Vivian Leigh, PT Travers, June Foray, and Marilyn Monroe

[@noname-mn9nm]

I think they've done Helen Keller and Marilyn Monroe

[@fadysameh7158]

an episode about D H lawrence and johny cash

[@josephkmeyer5178]

I’m wondering if you all would ever be willing to do one on Governor George Wallace? I think his trip from moderate to the face of segregation, his presidential campaign and assassination attempt, all the way back to moderate is an interesting story. Just how chasing the vote and populism can change someone for the worse.

[@minibigs5259]

Request: Ann Lister, Shibden Hall, Halifax. Look her up 😉😉

[@derekgardiner3583]

I jus follow Simon on the internet 🖖😁

[@hozonkai9967]

Leonid Brezhnev, please?

[@ELFey4ever]

Could you do an episode about Dame Agatha Christie? I can hardly believe that you left her out, so far!

[@mynnkkk]

Can you do Jane Austen next ?

[@diversejoe617]

One of the most underrated writers: Jane Austen

[@me0101001000]

I'd hardly say she's underrated, considering almost everyone has read at least one work of hers, and how she's been canonized in English literature

[@Woodsmoke22]

I'd hardly call her underrated... She is famous worldwide and has numerous films and television features:)

[@diversejoe617]

@@Woodsmoke22 true, Too bad she died in her early 40s

[@diversejoe617]

@@me0101001000 Would you say she's overrated

[@me0101001000]

@@diversejoe617 no. She's given the respect she deserves in the literature community.

[@kadabragugihj665]

She really spooked me

[@tinamoir2450]

Simon Whistler calling out John Green on how prevalent he is!

[@susangraham6346]

Who is John Green 🍏?

[@emjhendrickson8290]

wow hearing a biography like this, i realize i am incomprehensibly blessed. why? when ppl for thousands of years were born into that...

[@TheCanePaints]

i request something Simon will probably love, Gene Roddenberry

[@michaelsmyth3935]

Whose afraid? No one should be.

[@ISeeWhatYouDidThere]

My absolute fear is either my partner or myself reaching the point Virginia did at the end.

[@iwatchDVDsonXbox360]

I am still rooting for Ottoman sultans, but here are some other suggestions: Hans Christian Andersen Jean-Jacques Rousseau Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Marquis de Sade Anton Chekhov Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[@michellecrocker2485]

Nicely asking to hear about Ruth Bader Ginsberg soon. What a girl boss

[@duncancurtis1758]

The strength of her Internet? Keeping it secret eh?🤑🤪

[@MrJustbrowsing12345]

Do one on the amazing Ron Desantis 🙏

[@echoskirmish5203]

I humbly request Allen Ginsberg!!

[@markgordon8681]

Hard to believe these selfish people in the Bloomsbury group were descended from the Clapham Sect.☹️

[@nivaliswinter3267]

Standing Bear the Ponca chief and General George Crook

[@Mulambdaline1]

So sad, she had a tough life. I wish she would have lived a better more peaceful life.

[@EmoryStudy]

What an amazing woman

[@apanapandottir205]

She wasn't wrong...

[@aC00Lguy88]

She scares me.

[@ursulayost2371]

A very emotional episode. If I knew it contained mental illness & suicide I think I would have put off watching it until I was feeling less emotionally bruised. Other than my feelings, it was a fantastic episode & makes me want to read her works. Thank you for educating me.

[@MrAbz2012]

You should give spoiler warnings for telling the ending of Mrs. Dalloway :-(

[@JoanieAdamms]

You say John Green is the busy soul, have you seen yourself with all the channels you do, Simon Whistler...?

[@grandcrowdadforde6127]

didn t Leonard write a book he named Down Hill All the Way? pretty well sums it up!

[@RyanCoomer]

at a buffet, i personally sneak corndogs into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 corndogs in my jacket pockets. it then, is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corndogs thinking they were part of buffe

[@twistedpear18]

That’s pretty nasty, man.

[@benWTL]

you dropped this king 👑

[@Jeremyramone]

Sounds criminal, no one knows where your grimy hands have been.

[@kirab4146]

One hell of a woman

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Not good, women have never had the lives that they deserve. Mental institutions have never provided the positive changes in any person's life that they intend or proport to have. Fear, abuse and deprivation are all that are to be found for women past and present and the same is true of mental health care. A monumentous and significant change in attitudes to both needs to happen and a willingness to make that change may stop such tragedies as Virginia's in the future.