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We are at tea table. Virginia is speaking with gaiety, delicate malice and gossip––
the gossip which is the style of her books and which made her the best hostess
in London; listening to her, we missed appointments, forgot love–affairs, stayed
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on into the small hours, when we had to be hinted, gently, but firmly, out of the
house.
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Critics and therapists often presume psychodynamic explanations of causation despite lack of evidence in
Woolf’s writing.
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Page from Dostoevsky’s notebook with notations of ‚The Devils,‛ an example
of hypergraphia with voluminous, meticulous writing, using every inch of the page. There are also signs of compulsive writing and hyperreligiosity (church
drawing, transformation from ‚‘Rachel‛ to ‚Raphael‛). From Baumann et al.
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