Coming to London!!!

I loved it when Leonard Woolf says on the first page, referring to London, "I love it profoundly and, as with all real love that goes deep into the entrails, I hate it profoundly." I felt that out of all of the Bloomsbury group that identify with Leonard Woolf the most. I am a pretty laid back type of person and I felt that Leonard Woolf was the same. He describes himself at this dinner party where he accidently picks up a woman's petty coat thinking she had dropped her handkerchief. He describes himself as someone who was not terribly in the literary mix of "literary London" as I thought him to be. I still feel that he was very much a part of the world hejust didn't think he was. I too have a love/hate relationship with Fort Worth. I think Fort Worth is beautiful and as proud of the city, however I find it terribly boring and hate the repetitiveness of the days spent in this city. On the contrary if someone were to talk down upon Fort Worth I would take great offense because only I feel I can talk badly of it.

I found it interesting that Woolf started the memoir with stating why he is writing, "One of the things which I have been asked to deal with in this article is my 'first impressions of the London literary world'." And he ends with, "So I reached the goal set me by the editor for this article, my first publication and the London literary world of Bloomsbury." The way he began the article and ended the article was what I was always told not to do. 'You do tell the reader about what you are going to tell them.' However, I think that in doing this he supports his argument of not really fitting into this "literary London."