Without rocks in her dress
October 6, 2024 10:42 PM Subscribe
with rocks in my dress
and smoke in my hair
i walked into a lake
to get some sleep down in there
This lyric from ‘Comfort Me’ by Sparklehorse (previously) is likely an allusion to Virginia Woolf whose family recently refused permission for a Barbie doll to be created in her image. According to this report in The Times (UK) (archived link) it looked like “a sort of Laura Ashley milk maid with a sweet little bun holding an accessory copy of Mrs Dalloway.”
Amongst the other requests for permission mentioned in the article was one for her suicide note to be projected on a large screen during a performance at the the Royal Opera House and another from ‘a drugs company that wished to use her name to help sell an anti-depressant designed to help people with bipolar disorder’, which seems more than a little ironic considering how she met her end.
and smoke in my hair
i walked into a lake
to get some sleep down in there
This lyric from ‘Comfort Me’ by Sparklehorse (previously) is likely an allusion to Virginia Woolf whose family recently refused permission for a Barbie doll to be created in her image. According to this report in The Times (UK) (archived link) it looked like “a sort of Laura Ashley milk maid with a sweet little bun holding an accessory copy of Mrs Dalloway.”
Amongst the other requests for permission mentioned in the article was one for her suicide note to be projected on a large screen during a performance at the the Royal Opera House and another from ‘a drugs company that wished to use her name to help sell an anti-depressant designed to help people with bipolar disorder’, which seems more than a little ironic considering how she met her end.
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Virginia Woolf
She was good for a quote
Virginia Woolf
Knew that stones do not float
(“Virginia Woolf” by Robyn Hitchcock)
posted by Nerd of the North at 12:24 AM on October 7 [1 favorite]