hoy hace 72 años que Virginia Woolf se metió en el río Ouse con los bolsillos llenos de piedras

Dearest,

I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

V.

28 de marzo de 1941, última carta de Virginia Woolf a Leonard Woolf

the whale party

el lunes me dieron la primera fiesta sorpresa de mi vida.
aún estoy emocionada.
tardé tanto en comprender que todas esas mujeres que bajaban las escaleras al ritmo de Here comes the sun estaban ahí para sorprenderme, abrazarme, sacarme a bailar, regalarme, llenarme de besos, sonrisas y rica comida, que mi cara de pardilla denotó que fue una real sorpresa-sorpresa real.

gracias a todas por hacerme sentir tan querida y especial.

ay, cuántos pellizcos en la tripa...
[gracias especiales por vuestro amor, C. y T.]

Riitta Ikonen y Karoline Hjorth, Eyes as big as plates