But the image was very very vivid: it was associated with a concert that I had attended in Paris.’ (Anaïs Nin) ‘But there is another way of fighting for freedom without arms; we can fight with the mind. We can make ideas that will help the young Englishman who is fighting up in the sky to defeat the enemy. But to make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them in action. And the hornet in the sky rouses another hornet in the mind. There was one zooming in the Times this morning – a woman’s voice saying, ‘Women have not a word in politics.’ There is no women in the Cabinet; not in any responsible post. All the idea makers who are in position to make ideas effective are men. That is the thought that damps thinking, and encouraging irresponsibility. Why not burry the head in the pillow, plug the ears and cease this futile activity of idea- making? Because there are other tables besides officers tables and conference tables.’ Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid, p. 2.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:41:15 +0000
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