The Dwarfs
“It is quite natural.
Virginia lay crouched on the sofa. The room was still. A shaft of sunlight fell across the carpet. There was no sound.
She stood up. The posture of the room changed. The sunlight jolted. The room settled. The sunlight re-formed. But, she thought, I stand upright and the balance is disturbed. I have thrown a spanner in the works. I have done violence to normally imperturbable forces. I have inflicted a reverse.
She smiled. It was a conceit, certainly, at which Pete would smi...le, and upon which he would certainly expand. What would he say? How would he begin? The room and the sunlight, he would say, were what they were, simply, and nothing more. There were many rooms and only one sun. A room might be faulty in idea and construction, and could be criticized from that point of view. A leak in the roof was a fault. An adequate room was proof of nothing but a builder’s competence. It remained static until the house was pulled down; then, and then only, did it go through a process of drastic change; it did, in effect, cease to be a room.MoreLess
Virginia lay crouched on the sofa. The room was still. A shaft of sunlight fell across the carpet. There was no sound.
She stood up. The posture of the room changed. The sunlight jolted. The room settled. The sunlight re-formed. But, she thought, I stand upright and the balance is disturbed. I have thrown a spanner in the works. I have done violence to normally imperturbable forces. I have inflicted a reverse.
She smiled. It was a conceit, certainly, at which Pete would smi...le, and upon which he would certainly expand. What would he say? How would he begin? The room and the sunlight, he would say, were what they were, simply, and nothing more. There were many rooms and only one sun. A room might be faulty in idea and construction, and could be criticized from that point of view. A leak in the roof was a fault. An adequate room was proof of nothing but a builder’s competence. It remained static until the house was pulled down; then, and then only, did it go through a process of drastic change; it did, in effect, cease to be a room.MoreLess
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