Here we go.  That insufferable self-absorbed elitist and snob Viginia Woolf.  "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well."  This from a writer putatively preoccupied with the finer things in life.  Sensibly most people can't be bothered with the silly bitch but there are folk out there who quiver over her use of the semi-colon.  Yet we have this from a woman who didn't know the first thing about love.  She only did it once - yes, once - with her husband and since she didn't conceive she decided sex was all a bit pointless.  As for a good night's sleep her books are a rip-roaring sedative.  And as for thinking well, clearly, according to this all she was thinking about was the condition of her steaming guts.  For goodness sake there's more to life than what to have for your supper.  This one quote is worthy of strangulation alone.  No wonder I drink.

Today's: 2004 Tim Adams Shiraz.  Zesty, lifted and spicy nose. medium bodied.  Bloody good OZ Shiraz for just under a tenner should get you out of the bad mood Virginia Bloody Woolf puts you in.

 

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