the anti-heroine of an era of bathtub gin, organized crime, and jazz, clouded in the smoke of fired guns and cigarettes.
“I wish to write; I wish to write about certain things that cannot be held. I want to create a sea of freely-flowing words of no definite form and shape waves of fluent exactness.”
— Virginia Woolf, from Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909
— Virginia Woolf, from Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909