Tchaikovsky made swift, steady progress on the concerto, as by this point in his rest cure he had regained his inspiration, and the work was completed within a month despite the middle movement getting a complete rewrite ( a version of the original movement was preserved as the first of the three pieces for violin and piano, " Souvenir d'un lieu cher " ).
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The author Virginia Woolf was also prescribed the rest cure, which she parodied in her novel Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ) with the description : " you invoke proportion; order rest in bed; rest in solitude; silence and rest; rest without friends, without books, without messages; six months rest; until a man who went in weighing seven stone six comes out weighing twelve ".
