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Quotation from Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

“He--for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it--was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.”

Virginia Woolf (spoken by Narrator (the biographer))

Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 1 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331)

Portrait of Virginia Woolf

The first sentence finds the sixteen-year-old Orlando at mock battle in the attic, and already jokes about the sex that will change in Chapter 3.

Citation: "He--for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it--was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters." — Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 1 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331). (id orlando-q1)

Portrait: Virginia Woolf 1927, Unknown author, Public domain.

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