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Quotation from Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

“This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be and deserves fuller investigation.”

Virginia Woolf (spoken by Narrator (the biographer))

Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 2 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331)

Portrait of Virginia Woolf

After the first trance, the biographer explains why an hour of Orlando's thought may last longer than a year of his life.

Citation: "This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be and deserves fuller investigation." — Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 2 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331). (id orlando-q3)

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

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