Thank you hon! *hugs* Surely there was something you didn't like, though? Constructive criticism is good for me. I really hoped you'd enjoy it though, as you'd asked to read it. I was surprised by how much I still liked it - some of Virginia's dialogue literally came to me in dreams, word for word, so I feel more like a channel than a creator - I just happened to be there, except it's not as passive as that.

The last two sentences make me cringe, quite honestly. But Ido love the sentence "she abided there, lovingly traced her fingers down the spine of Mrs Dalloway." Which refers to the spine of the book, of course but also suggests the human spine, so I love the way that dual-imagery fits. And it's appropriate - and I swear I had not looked at or thought about this story in ten years - because this story is about about inspiration, in finding the will to go on where ever you may. And that is a creative act; life is a creative act because we are all writing our own stories. Laura may never write a book like Virginia Woolf did, but she dares to rewrite the existing "script" of "housewife, devoted wife and mother". Just as Virginia fashioned an unconventional life for herself; she and her husband published her books, and those of other authors, so she was outside of the constraints of the publishing houses or academia. She was beholden to no one, she was married and loved her husband but also had lovers (male and female).

Which brings me back to Buffy, rewriting the script of "slayerhood", utilizing her ingenuity and creativity (in a slayers hands anything can be a weapon).And we could say very much the same thing about the other Scoobies as well, to varying degrees. (Riley might be an exception, for instance.) So clearly there is something about these themes, embodied in these characters - always specifically women, I can't help that - that still speak to me.