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A cultural divide?
"here encountering the first knot in the smooth skein of her argument." (V. Woolf, Orlando: A Biography)
"the smooth skein of his imagination had encountered the first knot:" (my fic A Member Of The Wedding)
How come quotations from Gone With The Wind, The Muppet Show or The Little Mermaid (Disney, not Andersen) are immediately recognized while a sentence lifted almost verbatim from Virginia Woolf goes unnoticed?
Maybe I should use precise quotations. Maybe it's a US/UK issue. Feedback appreciated.
"the smooth skein of his imagination had encountered the first knot:" (my fic A Member Of The Wedding)
How come quotations from Gone With The Wind, The Muppet Show or The Little Mermaid (Disney, not Andersen) are immediately recognized while a sentence lifted almost verbatim from Virginia Woolf goes unnoticed?
Maybe I should use precise quotations. Maybe it's a US/UK issue. Feedback appreciated.
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I've read a lot of Virginia Woolf (for class) and never liked her. I have, however, read everything George Orwell wrote. Everything. Not kidding. Except his grocery lists. Also everything by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Or unless it's songs (I have no ear for music, but I usually easily learn the words in a song - if I can understand them, which in English I usually cannot).