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<DIV>Thank you for that. After all those years of fuss about copyright and
its never being repeated on TV, here it is!</DIV>
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<DIV>The first time I’ve seen it since it was broadcast <SPAN
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18 Jan 1970. </SPAN><SPAN
style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: en-gb'>Some
of the contributions are transcribed and included in "Recollections of Virginia
Woolf", NOBLE, Jean Russell (ed.). </SPAN><SPAN
style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-language: en-gb'>It
is thought that in the Mrs McNab passage, the camera ascends the now-demolished
staircase of Talland House.</SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“The Times”, 19 Jan 1970</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The ghost lives</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">By
Michael Ratcliffe</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">BBC I:</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Twenty-nine years after her death, Virginia Woolf
retains, as disconcertingly as ever, her power to animate - and confuse - all
those who knew her; and almost half of Julian Jebb's Omnibus film, “A Night's
Darkness, A Day's Sail”, on B.B.C.1 last night was given to the sharply edited
rememberings of Bloomsbury's more articulate survivors and disciples. It proved
a rich and sometimes highly comic record of tribal memory stirring a still
active legend. The ghost lived.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Only on the fact of Virginia Woolf's unquestioned genius
was there any kind of unanimity. Just as Virginia Woolf herself invented
necessary fantasies from their lives, so they each retained something necessary
of her particular to themselves. She looked, thought Lord David Cecil, supported
by a caption perfectly illustrating his point, "like a deeply mocking Madonna";
like the wife of a very distinguished soldier" (Elizabeth Bowen); like "a
seventeenth-century abbess" (Raymond Mortimer); "a Botticelli dancer" (David
Garnett); "a cross between a horse and a greyhound " (her niece Angelica, in
whom something of her own stunning sense of urgency obviously
survives).</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Benedict and Nigel Nicolson, respectively grave and
shining, sat in the garden at Sissinghurst nudging mutual memory and, in true
Bloomsbury fashion, as firmly putting it down. They were star material; in their
scenes, and when kindly Quentin Bell held the screen from over his spectacles,
backed by long shelves of Virginial documentation, we were not very far from the
world of Jonathan Miller's “Alice”. Was Bloomsbury "affected"? Lord David Cecil
thought not, although it was said that they had this sort of breathless way of
talking. The celebrated brand of italicized disbelief ("But you can't *possibly*
mean ... ? *Too* extraordinary!") was given its place, too.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">This was the day's sail. These interviews, firmly
handled by Mr. Jebb and beautifully edited by Roger Crittenden, recalled the
quality of Virginia Woolf's life, the personality, both of which were, in spite
of the suicide, triumphant. Miss Bowen concluded with a late memory of Mrs.
Woolf mending a torn curtain and suddenly rocking back on her heels in the
spring sunshine, hooting with joyous and uncomplicated laughter.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Parallel with these bright orderings of the myth ran
some more ambitious sequences. Following a suggestion made by Leonard Woolf in
an earlier, quoted, film of 1967, Mr. Jebb sought to establish a visual link
between the life and the work, between the ecstasy and the ultimate madness. A
disintegrating animism is a terrifying prospect and almost impossible to
interpret in other than abstract or surrealist terms. Mr. Jebb did not attempt
that: instead, a camera lurching upstairs into a sheeted summer bedroom and
homing on a bowl of flowers ("Will you fade? Will you perish?") provided an
image of crack-up touching enough but falling far short of the terrible
intensity that informed the accompanying words. Perhaps there were too many
words.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The times of happiness were more successfully suggested:
the childhood genesis of “To the Lighthouse” on a Mediterranean day near St.
Ives, Elgar's “Introduction and Allegro” perfectly matching the luminous
intensity of the scene; Mrs. Woolf's delight in the London summer elevated into
total joy by the unlikely use of Chabrier's piano variations on themes from
“Tristan and Isolde”. Mr- Jebb concluded his film with the cavatina from
Beethoven's Opus 130 B flat quartet which Leonard Woolf had wished to hear at
his wife's cremation. When the time came, he was so stunned and exhausted from
the three weeks' search for her body that he could not bring himself even to
mention it to the Dean at the top of the village.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The
music came to rest on the blank face of Vanessa Bell's portrait of her sister
and the filling-in could begin all over again. What about those famous evenings
in Fitzroy Square? What did they eat? Oh, strawberries, cheap white wine, that
sort of thing (George Rylands). But Duncan Grant, smiling his enchanter's smile,
remembered principally the coffee. And perhaps, occasionally, the
buns.</FONT></P>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Drew.Shannon@msj.edu
href="mailto:Drew.Shannon@msj.edu">Shannon, Drew</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 3, 2016 10:43 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu
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<DIV>Greetings!</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=tahoma>I had no idea this documentary, <EM>A Night's Darkness, A
Day's Sail, </EM>was available on YouTube. Well worth looking at, given
the people they feature, including Quentin Bell, Angelica Garnett, David
Garnett, Janet Vaughan, Duncan Grant, Dadie Rylands, Louie Mayer, Ben and Nigel
Nicolson, Raymond Mortimer, Elizabeth Bowen, William Plomer, and David
Cecil. I'd been wanting to see this since I saw it mentioned in Regina
Marler's <EM>Bloomsbury Pie. </EM>Enjoy!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnN_Gik7or4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnN_Gik7or4</A></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial"><STRONG>Drew Shannon,
Ph.D.</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><FONT size=4 face=arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial">Associate Professor of
English</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial">Mount St. Joseph
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial">Cincinnati, OH 45233
USA</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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color=#000000>Drew.Shannon@msj.edu</FONT></A> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><FONT size=4 face=arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial">Historian/Bibliographer of the
International Virginia Woolf Society</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial">"I meant to write about death, only
life came breaking in as usual." -- Virginia Woolf, <EM>Diary</EM>, 17 February
1922</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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