At least Astor could see, Lewis argues, that he was leading "a shallow, vapid, cotton-wool life".
There will be fewer and fewer of what Virginia Woolf called "moments of being," intense sensations that stand apart from the "cotton wool of daily life".
Or, as she invokes Virginia Woolf to explain her aim, it is to move from the "cotton wool of daily life" to "moments of being".
The other side of the vase shows a more mundane aspect of a young girl's life, spinning wool to make cloth.
The Tree of Life hooked wool rug, with an outdoor scene with a squirrel and a deer, comes in two sizes, 2 by 3 feet ($54) and 4 by 6 feet ($198), at Anthropologie, www.anthropologie.com or (800) 309-2500.
"The thread would probably not have been wool in an actual life-sized statue, so I used a gold chain instead, and carried the gold motif down to the gathered thread of the spindle".
At the graduate level, however, literary studies frustrated him, touching on the stuff of life, but with wool rather than with steel.
I'm embarrassed now by my shabby (if organic) cotton sheets, the old duvet now losing its loft, the polyester mattress pads, the faded cotton and scratchy wool blankets collected casually along life's way.
The late Ahmed Shafik of Cairo University, for studying the effects of wearing polyester, cotton, or wool trousers on the sex life of rats, and for then conducting similar tests with human males.
Unlike fumed-silica VIPs, glass wool VIPs may exhibit short service life due to this permeation.
