Painterly wooden crib beneath a hanging mobile of moons, stars and other small shapes.

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Moments of Being (1939-1940)

Virginia Woolf

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker recalls childhood as an immense, echoing interior, lofty and almost sacred, a space larger than the person who lived in it. The phrase gives early life a sense of awe and grandeur, as though it were a place one could enter and wander in memory.

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