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WALTER SICKERT\n\nA CONVERSATION  \nVIRGINIA WOOLF  \nPUBLISHED BY LEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF AT THEHOGARTH PRESS,52 TAVISTOCK SQUARE,LONDON,W.C.r  \nI934  \nFirst published 1934  \nMADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THEGARDEN CITY PRESS LTD.,LETCHWORTH,HERTS  \nTHOUGH talk is a common habit and muchenjoyed,those who try to record it are awarethat it runs hither and thither,seldom sticks tothe point,abounds in exaggeration and inac-curacy,and has frequent stretches of extremedullness.Thus when seven or eight peopledined together the other night the first tenminutes went in saying how very difficult it isto get about London nowadays;was it quickerto walk or to drive;did the new system ofcoloured lights help or hinder?Just as dinnerwas announced,somebody asked:\"But whenwere picture galleries invented?”,a questionnaturally arising,for the discussion about thevalue of coloured lights had led somebody tosay that in the eyes of a motorist red is not acolour but simply a danger signal.We shallvery soon lose our sense of colour,anotheradded,exaggerating,of course.Colours areused so much as signals now that they will very  \nsoon suggest action merely—that is the worst ofliving in a highly organized community.Otherinstances of the change wrought upon oursenses by modern conditions were then cited;how buildings are changing their characterbecause no one can stand still to look at them;how statues and mosaics removed from their oldstations and confined to the insides of churchesand private houses lose the qualities properto them in the open air.This naturally led tothe question when picture galleries were firstopened,and as no precise answer was forth-coming the speaker went on to sketch a fancypicture of an inventive youth having to waithis turn to cross Ludgate Circus in the reignof Queen Anne.\"Look,\"he said to himself,\"how the coaches cut across the corners!Thatpoor old boy,\"he said,“positively had to puthis hand to his pig-tail.Nobody any longerstops to look at St.Paul's.Soon all theseswinging signboards will be dismantled.Letme take time by the forelock,\"he said,and,going to his bank,which was near at hand,drewout what remained of his patrimony,andinvested it in a neat set of rooms in Bond Street,where he hung the first show of pictures ever to  \nbe displayed to the public.Perhaps that is theorigin of the House of Agnews;perhaps theirgallery stands on the site of the house that wasleased,so foreseeingly,by the young man overtwo hundred years ago.Perhaps,said theothers;but nobody troubled to verify the statement,forit was a bitter cold night in December and thesoup stood upon the table.  \nIn course of time the talk turned,as talk has away of turning,back on itself—to colour;howdifferent people see colour differently;howpainters are affected by their place of birth,whether in the blue South or the grey North;how colour blazes,unrelated to any object,inthe eyes of children;how politicians and busi-ness men are blind,days spent in an officeleading to atrophy of the eye;and so,by con-trast,to those insects,said still to be found in theprimeval forests of South America,in whomthe eye is so developed that they are all eye,thebody a tuft of feather,serving merely to connectthe two great chambers of vision.Somebodyhad met a man whose business it was to explorethe wilder parts of the world in search ofcactuses,and from him had heard of theseinsects who are born with the flowers and die  \n7  \nwhen the flowers fade.A hard-headed man,used to roughing it in all parts of the world,yet there was something moving to him in thesight of these little creatures drinking crimsonuntil they became crimson;then flitting on toviolet;then to a vivid green,and becoming forthe moment the thing they saw—red,green,blue,whatever the colour of the flowermight beAt the first breath of winter,he said,when theflowers died,the life went out of them,and youmight 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