In short, there was nothing for it but to ask her in and give her a glass of wine.
Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography
Ask and give.
Freiplätze.
Chairs and tables, however richly gilt and carved, sofas, resting on lions' paws with swans' necks curving under them, beds even of the softest swansdown are not by themselves enough. People sitting in them, people lying in them improve them amazingly.
Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography
Kurzarbeit.
... when a man has reached the age of thirty, as Orlando now had, time when he is thinking becomes inordinately long; time when he is doing becomes inordinately short.
Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography
Schreibk(r)ampf.
Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished;
Virginia Woolf: Orlando: A Biography
Calling is not blogging.
For example, if you forgot to call your father for 3 weeks, it does not make sense to call him 3 times in a single day to make up for it.