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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Stuart, I agree that jays aren’t blue-green, but I’d wager that the green is supposed to foreshadow (and thus mix the palette in the reader’s mind)
the green dress she is to don upon her return.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As far as describing her as a bird, I’m sure you have noticed how many women are described as being birdlike in Mrs. Dalloway, perching on the
kerb, etc. I believe this is a reference to the harpies - half-woman, half-bird - that guard the entrance to the circle of hell in which the suicides land (from The Inferno). There are several references in that chapter of The Inferno that find resonance in
Mrs. Dalloway, including the wild dogs in the bushes (Septimus/Evans), the bushes themselves that bleed when the branches are broken, etc.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As far as light and vivacious go, those are two adjectives that I had difficulties attributing to the Clarissa I imagined upon my first reading
of the novel when I was 26 because she was SOOO old! Now that I’m nearly her age, I know many middle-age men and women who are vivacious. Birds are light and, flitting around as they do, appear vivacious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu]
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Stuart N. Clarke<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 17. September 2013 18:00<br>
<b>An:</b> woolf list<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [Vwoolf] Still on the early pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Why does Scrope Purvis think Mrs D to be “a charming woman ... a touch of the bird about her, of the jay, blue-green, light, vivacious ...”?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Jays are *not* blue-green:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/j/jay/index.aspx" title="http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/j/jay/index.aspx">http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/j/jay/index.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">And, for that matter, there’s nothing charming, light or vivacious about their call.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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