Tectonic Motion: Making the Himalayas. The Himalayas are a prime example of how tectonic plate motion can manipulate the earth in extraordinary ways. These colliding plates resulted in the formation of the highest mountain range on the planet. By the Power of My Convections.
Virginia Woolfâs Orlando and the ecstatic disease of literature The 1928 novel Orlando is as much a love letter to literature as it is to a human being. It speaks passionately to those of us addicted to words, who lock ourselves away in quiet rooms and sink into different worlds, shutting off our external senses to sharpen our internal ones.
Did Virginia Woolf really commit suicide by drowning herself in a river with a stone? Yes, Virginia did commit suicide by putting a large stone in the pocket of her coat to weigh herself down under the water of the nearby river Ouse. In the film, however, before her suicide, she writes two farewell letters, one to her husband and one to her sister, Vanessa.