Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of twenty–the world of the elderly–thrown up in such black outline upon what we are; upon the reality; the moors and Byron; the sea and the lighthouse; the sheep’s jaw with the yellow teeth in it; upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable–“ I am what I am, and intend to be it, ” for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself. The Plumers will try to prevent him from making it. Wells and Shaw and the serious sixpenny weeklies will sit on its head. Virginia Woolf
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