This is an excellent piece. If anything, you're slightly too merciful. As you mentioned, Virginia Woolf said hundreds more awful things. And, apart from a few works by her and by E.M. Forster, the writings of the Bloomsbury group remain largely unread.
This is an excellent piece. If anything, you're slightly too merciful. As you mentioned, Virginia Woolf said hundreds more awful things. And, apart from a few works by her and by E.M. Forster, the writings of the Bloomsbury group remain largely unread.
For what it's worth, I gave Forster a bit of a kicking: https://williampoulos.substack.com/p/would-you-betray-your-friends-or
Thanks! Thinking of reposting it soon as a “from the archives” piece