Sit and chat awhile with Virginia Woolf!

It’s nice to see the sculptor of the first Lucy statue got more work!

This representation is not an accurate representation of Virginia Woolf's genius.

She may have lolled around in private places but not in a public place. She wasn't the sort of person who welcomed intimacy with strangers.

I don't think it quite appropriate.

Seriously, Woolf was deep in Literary Society, and would have been horrified to see tourists or emo nitwits posing with her likeness!

If the Emo nitwits know about her at all.

[quote] nitwits

80% of all those times that Datalounge nitwits mention her… they misspell her name.

She was happy and relaxed with charming company.

The sculptor has included her large feet but some reason has elongated her neck.

I give selfies!

She would be horrified. And putting it by the river is incredibly tin-eared.

R7 They could've done a fountain.

Who's Afraid of Nancy Culp?

And I posed for the statue!

All one needs in this world is a park bench of one's own.

I wonder if some Datalounger will sit on the seat and ask 'Virginia, why didn't you write any happy stories?

I'm assuming it will be placed here.

Mrs. Dalloway decided that she would clean the bird poop herself.

Still not as unseemly as Nicole Kidman fake nose " give me an Oscar bitches!" performance.

I love her books.

I love her diaries more.

Her genius is more accessible.

🎶 She's crazy! She's crazy! She's altogether crazy! [bold]VIR-GIN-IA WOOOOOLF![/bold] 🎶

"It’s going to get rubbed raw and once in a while it will need to get re-patinated"

Rubbed raw, you say?

[quote] rubbed raw

At least Virginia doesn't have breasts because vulgar tourists love rubbing the brass breasts of other statues.

Got rocks, in pocket...

R7 Even though the sculptor has got the proportions of her neck wrong I'm glad we're seeing a representational statue.

Virginia's friend Roger Fry promoted the work of the Vorticists but Virginia and Vanessa tended towards the milder Impressionists.

See, I was right the locals find it distasteful to have the statue by the river.

Some cat is going to take a nap on her lap.

[quote] Chairman of the Richmond Society, said [it] might distress anyone who knows her story.

Her story is four decades of achievement. Her "story" isn't her last day on earth.

The Germans were about to invade. Her house was under their bombardment lines. Her husband was on the invaders' list of those who needed to be sent to the camps.

R23 The proportions are wrong.

I want to see human sitting on the same seat to prove it.

She was a great writer. She was also nutz.

I don't see a problem with putting the statue by a river, even the river Ouse.

No, R27, she wasn't.

She may have have had occasional episodes. But you can't brand her entire existence by those episodes.

We spend a quarter of our life in bed but you can't say that we spend our entire existence asleep.

Oh, relax, R28.

Some of our greatest writers were nutz.

Are you 'nutz', R29?

She spent her life searching for a plot.

She jumped into the Ouse not the Thames.

[quote] She spent her life searching for a plot.

All her books contain plots. But 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse' have quite small plots.

'The Waves' has a small plot but it's not easy to catch because it's all rendered in monologues.

Her last novel and the first two novels are quite conventional. 'Jacob's Room' is attractive because it's conventional but with hints of the transcendence that was to come.

another nail in the (closed) coffin of Western civilization