Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An i…

Virginia Woolf
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1984). The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941, Harcourt
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1984). The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941, Harcourt

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