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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com
href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">Stuart N. Clarke</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 03, 2014 12:35 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no
href="mailto:jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no">Jeremy Hawthorn</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] in the hands of the Lord</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>I may be wrong, but I take them as purely mental statements and
questions. If aloud, is she speaking to herself? Or to whom?
To James? To anyone who happens to overhear?</DIV>
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<DIV>I can’t seem to find this passage in the MS.</DIV>
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<DIV>Although I haven’t read it since 1970, I recommend Mitchell Leaska’s rather
neglected “Virginia Woolf’s Lighthouse” (Hogarth Press, 1970).</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no
href="mailto:jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no">Jeremy Hawthorn</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 03, 2014 12:10 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] in the hands of the Lord</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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a basic question about a well-known passage from <I>To the Lighthouse</I>.
Passage first:<BR><BR><FONT color=#ff0000>Often she found herself sitting and
looking, sitting and looking, with her work in her hands until she became the
thing she looked at -- that light, for example. And it would lift up on it some
little phrase or other which had been lying in her mind like that --"Children
don’t forget, children don’t forget" -- which she would repeat and begin adding
to it, It will end, it will end, she said. It will come, it will come, when
suddenly she added, We are in the hands of the Lord.<BR> But
instantly she was annoyed with herself for saying that. Who had said it? Not
she; she had been trapped into saying something she did not mean. <BR>. .
.<BR> What brought her to say that: "We are in the hands of
the Lord?" she wondered. The insincerity slipping in among the truths roused
her, annoyed her. She returned to her knitting again. How could any Lord have
made this world? she asked.</FONT><BR><BR>Now the question. Are we to assume
that Mrs Ramsay actually speaks these words out loud, or are the "saying" and
the "asking" purely mental operations? For a long while I have assumed that it
is the latter, that Mrs Ramsay speaks these words to herself, silently. But now
I am less sure. <BR><BR>Any thoughts?<BR><BR>Jeremy H<BR><BR><BR>
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