[Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf boot
Jeremy Hawthorn
jeremy.hawthorn at ntnu.no
Tue Dec 10 16:02:48 EST 2019
Well, this did send me back to the text of /To the Lighthouse/ to find
the sequence where Lily praises Mr Ramsay's boots. The novel is actually
full of boots. There is an artist in Panama hat and yellow boots, Mrs
Ramsay reports that her husband would talk by the hour about his boots,
and Mr Bankes felt felt rigid and barren, like a pair of boots that have
been soaked and gone dry so that you can hardly force your feet into
them. A rough count in an electronic text reveals that "boot" and its
cognates occur 24 times in the novel. Is Van Gogh lurking somewhere in
the text?
Jeremy Hawthorn
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