aspiracje

'"Fielding," said Fanny, when the man in Charing Cross Road asked her what book she wanted.
she bought Tom Jones.
at ten o'clock in the morning, in a room which she shared with a school teacher, Fanny Elmer read Tom Jones - that mystic book. for this dull stuff (Fanny thought) about people with odd names is what Jacob likes. good people like it. dowdy women who don't mind how they cross their legs read Tom Jones - a mystic book; for there is something, Fanny thought, about books which if i had been educated i could have liked - much better than ear-rings and flowers, she sighed, thinking of the corridors at the Slade and the fancy-dress dance next week. she had nothing to wear.'
V. Woolf, 'Jacob's Room

ja miałam odczucia podobne jak Fanny czytając Virginię Woolf właśnie - a 'Tom Jones' czytał się o niebo lepiej niż 'Jacob's Room.'