Having lost her thought at a border enforced by patriarchy, Woolf raises the problems of wandering, trespassing, and thinking as a woman. Woolf next remarks: “What idea it had been that had sent me so audaciously trespassing, I could not now remember.” She is immediately intercepted, however, by “a man’s figure” and told to use the gravel path. While she sits beside the river, thought lets “its line down into the stream , letting the water lift it and sink it, until-you know the little tug-the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one’s line.” Upon hauling in the thought, Woolf remarks that it might be best “put back.” Yet once put back, the thought excites her again, and Woolf walks off “with extreme rapidity” over the Oxbridge grass. In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf famously speaks of the way a thought comes upon her. For Rebecca Solnit and Virginia Woolf, thought travels by detour and collision.
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