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.
Friday 18 May 2012 17.45 EDT First published on Friday 18 May 2012 17.45 EDT. Jane Austen's admirer Virginia Woolf said that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness. It is a brilliant insight. The apparent modesty of Austen's dramas is only apparent; the minuteness of design is a bravura achievement. But it cannot be shown by some grand scene or speech.