Sarah Sutcliffe
three worlds music from woolf works orlando memory is the seamstress
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Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that
Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither
We know not what comes next, or what follows after
Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting