[Vwoolf] Rather unexpected Woolf sighting in video game

[Jen]

Many thanks for the heads up on this. I am a little way into the game and
will keep my ears peeled! Curious to see how the text is incorporated and
the nature of the surrounding context...

I have to say, even early on there are Woolfian turns of phrase in the
dialogue. Not from the Master Chief, mind you! That would be something!

My thanks again,

All best,

Jen

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Jenny Cubin

On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 5:18 PM Jean Mills via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
wrote:

> Exactly, Adela! There's much to unpack.
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 12:09 PM Adela M Hurtado via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Thank you for sharing this! I’ll keep a look out for the suicide note
>> quote once I get my hands on the new Xbox. An interesting tidbit is that
>> the studio behind the Halo franchise is run by a woman, Bonnie Ross, who
>> helped found it nearly 15 years ago. She has led initiatives for women,
>> girls, and minorities in STEM and gaming careers and for diversity in video
>> game storytelling, which she has purposefully done in the Halo series that
>> she loves. Maybe she’s also a Woolf fan!
>>
>> Just looked her up now and she’s one of only two women inducted into the
>> industry’s Hall of Fame!
>>
>> I have fun memories playing the Halo series with friends in high school,
>> and so thank you for sharing this Woolf news.
>>
>> Adela Hurtado
>>
>> On Dec 6, 2021, at 11:11 AM, Graham Borland via Vwoolf <
>> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Woolfians,
>>
>> In an unusual enough Woolf sighting, I stumbled across a review of a new
>> video game in the *Halo *franchise which mentions that a character in it
>> quotes Woolf in a cutscene.
>>
>> If the reviewer is to believed, however, the game seems to somewhat
>> insensitively cite a perhaps all-too-predicable text of Woolf’s in an
>> attempt to lend seriousness to the plot.
>>
>>
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgg7k/halo-infinite-is-a-fun-sandbox-stuck-inside-a-very-old-video-game?utm_source=waypoint_twitter&utm_medium=social__;!!KGKeukY!iFdIB9K0txDWP_75MG8GQCBlL_uAjCo4NdlFap6SOHtRls7S1R0NISbyonboEMsJLQ4$ 
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgg7k/halo-infinite-is-a-fun-sandbox-stuck-inside-a-very-old-video-game?utm_source=waypoint_twitter&utm_medium=social__;!!KGKeukY!hvSHtoUWNxfKTudli7c-_gzMXOuoifbexIY0YsKipQbd_Tf-9o2ozj6vXfYIq6QO6Kw$>
>>
>> Not the first Woolf-ism in a video game, however, as Jean Mills noted in
>> her essay in the Cambridge Companion to To the Lighthouse.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Graham
>> --
>>  Graham Borland
>>
>>
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> *Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger *by Jane Marcus; Edited and with an
> Introduction and Afterword by Jean Mills. Clemson University Press, Fall,
> 2020
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> "'With every nerve in my body I stand for peace': Jane Ellen Harrison and
> the Heresy of War" in *Reconsidering Peace and Patriotism during the
> First World War *(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2017)
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