User blog comment:GunjiBunny/Lytton Strachey's Letter to Virginia Woolf/@comment-1674153-20160425075825/@comment-1674153-20160425091354

I'm afraid you don't understand that when I critique this, I recognize that it's a work in progress. There is, in fact, a very low level of permanance to anything that is written here - we go back and change things all the time.

I'm merely saying that as the artifact stands now it's insulting to have the thing cause insanity for Woolf. It's even insulting to have it cause Carrington to commit suicide, given that she was more than her romantic inclinations.

Say you did go with this being Carrington's letter instead. But it's not very appealing for the letter to have already been made an artifact strictly because it was written on his deathbed. Carrington would have felt anguish already at having lost someone who was so important to her - do you need an artifact to explain that pain? Wouldn't it be more powerful (as an emotional monument, not strictly as an artifact) to have this artifact come from her pain as well as his?