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Literature · Reflection

VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE PASSION OF THE BRAIN

3 September 2011

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

Virginia Woolf

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