T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

I had a most shameful and distressing interview with poor dear Tom Eliot, who may be called dead to us all from this day forward. He has become an Anglo-Catholic, believes in God and immortality, and goes to church.
I was really shocked. A corpse would seem to me more credible than he is. I mean, there's something obscene in a living person sitting by the fire and believing in God.
--- Virginia Woolf
In a Letter to
Her Sister Vanessa in 1928
As Reported in the LRB by
Colm Tóibín
23 October 2014