{"id":91085,"date":"2015-10-20T17:11:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=91085"},"modified":"2015-10-20T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:18:23","slug":"precious-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/precious-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Precious Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g66SAp3WpHI\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no great shock that Leonard Woolf was recorded on film, not when you think about it\u2014after all, the writer, publisher, and widower of Virginia lived into 1969.<\/p>\n<p>And yet! And yet! It seems somehow magical that here he should be, modern and in color, talking about Maynard Keynes for all the world as if he is not a living bridge to a storied past, most of which went as unfilmed\u2014as though Bloomsbury had not belonged to modernity at all, let alone invented it. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s less than a minute of footage of Leonard in the video above, and he\u2019s not saying anything particularly revolutionary; just praising his friend Keynes\u2019s famously lively mind. Perhaps because Virginia Woolf was never filmed, Leonard\u2019s sheer normalcy lands with a lot of force. (I say \u201cLeonard\u201d and \u201cVirginia\u201d\u00a0as if I know them, as if they are public property.) It\u2019s hard not to think of his own words: \u201cWhenever one really knows the facts, one finds that what is accepted by contemporaries or posterity as the truth about them is so distorted or out of focus that it is not worth worrying about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Sadie Stein is contributing editor of <\/em>The Paris Review<em>, and the <\/em>Daily<em>\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no great shock that Leonard Woolf was recorded on film, not when you think about it\u2014after all, the writer, publisher, and widower of Virginia lived into 1969. And yet! And yet! 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