Imitation is fitting because Woolf's original novel was trying to do justice to the sharpness of new experience, even as it detonates old memories, and this endeavour is always worth trying afresh.
Try starting afresh two or three times.
Numerous experiments over the past few years have shown that the best way to build new neural pathways is to try and recall it afresh, helping subjects remember more than twice as much, over the long term, than just passively reading the material; self-testing also turns out to be more effective than creative techniques like drawing diagrams and mind maps.
As Mary Warnock (1967 37) writes, Sartre's existentialism suggests that "instead of coming to situations armed with lists or sets of principles, some one of which has got to be put into practice, we must think of each situation afresh, and try to see what, stock descriptions, duties and principles apart, ought to be done for the best.
Sitting in a circle, they list the places they have tried to start afresh: Norway, England, Switzerland, Sweden, England again.
At first, she tried to start afresh, without the daily reminders of her husband, but that was wrong, she said.
Mr. Pallotta, 52, is one of a number of prominent money managers who are trying to start afresh after the tumult of the financial crisis.
But his stance, unlike Salman Rushdie's or Rohinton Mistry's, is of a calm Homeric objectivity, as he tries to realize afresh what seems, after many long novels from the subcontinent, a particularly Indian ambition to retool the novel as an epic form.
'It was a really bad thing and to me it's really embarrassing,' she says now. 'I knew he was the wrong person, I knew I didn't want to marry him, but I was so anxious for Kai, and desperate to get away from the people I was mixing with.' They tried to start afresh in Australia but it didn't work out.
We've tried to think afresh about the plays.
