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I am reading Virginia Woolfes seminal essay A Room of Ones One, and in it she uses the word incandescent to describe an artistic state of mind that has consumed all impediments. Looking up the word in the OED, two definitions seem to fit her context: Glowing, brightly shining, brilliantly luminous. and Becoming or being warm or intense in feeling, expression, etc.; ardent, fiery; ‘flaming up’. For me, it seems she offers a romantic figuring of artistic genius, but, I ask, does anyone else have an opinion about what it means to possess an incandescent state of mind?
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:01:56 +0000

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