![]() Manuscript of Virginia Woolf's unfinished memoir 'A Sketch of the Past', including. The bars in this case, of course, are so highly wrought and so covered over with accretions of alien matter that it is extremely difficult to hear anything distinctly. They have never sat themselves in front of the screen and thought how for all the clothes on their backs and the carpets at their feet, no great distance separates them from those bright-eyed naked men who knocked two bars of iron together and heard in that clangour a foretaste of the music of Mozart. They have never seen the savages of the twentieth century watching the pictures. But these philosophers have presumably forgotten the movies. PEOPLE say that the savage no longer exists in us, that we are at the fag-end of civilization, that everything has been said already, and that it is too late to be ambitious. ![]()
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