The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and…

Virginia Woolf
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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. ✨ The Common Reader Notes on an Elizabethan Play (1925)
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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. ✨ The Common Reader Notes on an Elizabethan Play (1925)

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