a few interesting things about what Woolf says:
1. the tendency of some female writers to describe the experience of creating art as a wounding that is both inflicted by and healed through their art making process, see article: The Blank Page: and Issues of Female Creativity.
2. The choice of the word "thing:" in "we are the thing itself" -this only interests me because of the obsession that the writers we have studied this semester, Zuko, HOwe, Olson, have with "things" there are some metaphysical and aesthetic concepts wrapped up in this one word that I am not sure I fully understand.
3. like Zukofsky Woolf removes the particulars. There is no Shakespeare or Beethoven. because we are all the art; pieces of a great infinite art; and I start thinking of chaos theory as we were discussing, and it is interesting to think of the world as a great art-fractal.