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After some research about Wilde walking a lobster I found the following:</div>

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Wilde saying to Frank, “There’s a little library on board of French books and English; I’ve ordered supper in the cabin — lobster a l’Americaine and a bottle of Pommery” (<i>The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde</i>)</li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">

An image of Wilde walking his lobster (and in-text passage)  in Ben Le Vey’s <i>Eccentric Britain. </i></li><li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Also,<i> see</i> the reference to Gerard de Nerval who “trailed a lobster after him through the streets of Paris” (in Karl Beckson<i>, Oscar Wilde, 423 and

</i>elsewhere).</font></li></ol>

<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">I</font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> also recall, interestingly, that Wilde’s lobster was purple and that Woolf wrote with purple ink.</font></div>

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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Mary</font></div>

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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>"Stuart N. Clarke" <<a href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com</a>><br>

<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 7:16 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>[Vwoolf] "Jacob's Room": Crux #3<br>

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<div>Near the beginning of ch. V:</div>

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<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"></span></span>“<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">you

 will see that three elderly men at a little distance from each other run spiders along the pavement as if the street were their parlour”</span></div>

<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"></span> </div>

<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">This *very* mysterious. 

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<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"></span> </div>

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</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Neverow suggests that t</span>he ‘men, who are spaced so that they will not compete with one another, are selling mechanical toys to passersby, probably windup penny toys manufactured in Germany.’ (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">JR</i>

 2008: 229)</div>

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<div>Ado suggests “peut-être” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">JR</i> 2012: 329):</div>

<div>(1) Live spiders attached by threads</div>

<div>(2) penny toys</div>

<div>(3) bicycles</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>

<div><a title="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-WIND-UP-CLOCKWORK-TOY-SCHUCO-STYLE-SPRING-DEVIL-SPIDER-C1920S-30S-/391084080032" href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-WIND-UP-CLOCKWORK-TOY-SCHUCO-STYLE-SPRING-DEVIL-SPIDER-C1920S-30S-/391084080032">http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-WIND-UP-CLOCKWORK-TOY-SCHUCO-STYLE-SPRING-DEVIL-SPIDER-C1920S-30S-/391084080032</a></div>

<div><a 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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 answers gratefully received.</span></span></div>

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