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<div>Dear Stuart,</div>
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<div>I believe Woolf is referring to the famous image of Oscar Wilde walking his lobster down the street. </div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127); font-family: Papyrus;">Dr. Mary Libertin</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Jeremy Hawthorn <<a href="mailto:jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no">jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 7:56 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Vwoolf] "Jacob's Room": Crux #3<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I remember street sellers in London with mechanical spiders. They had a cable with a hand grip, and when you squeezed the grip the legs moved and propelled them along.<br>
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Den 12/05/2015 13:16, skrev Stuart N. Clarke:<br>
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<div>Near the beginning of ch. V:</div>
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<div>Ado suggests “peut-ętre” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
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<div>(1) Live spiders attached by threads</div>
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<div>I think Ado’s #3 is unlikely: bikes on the pavement – disgraceful! I think those types of bikes called spiders predate 1910 by some considerable time (altho’ I’d never heard of them before).</div>
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<div>Ado’s #1 seems possible. After all, in the Victorian period you could buy sparrows from street vendors, with strings attached to their legs, and you could fly them around. Ugh!</div>
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<div>I really like Vara’s and Ado’s #2. Not something I would have thought of, but look here:</div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" title="http://www.ebay.ca/itm/OLD-GERMAN-WIND-UP-TOY-SPIDER-/251940077598?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa8cc801e" href="http://www.ebay.ca/itm/OLD-GERMAN-WIND-UP-TOY-SPIDER-/251940077598?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa8cc801e">http://www.ebay.ca/itm/OLD-GERMAN-WIND-UP-TOY-SPIDER-/251940077598?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa8cc801e</a></div>
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<div>On the other hand, would a 1922 reader know what VW was referring to? Would it be obvious to him/her that she was referring to toys?</div>
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