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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>My bet is that Hamilton’s familiarity with Woolf extends no further than Albee’s play title. And that he had a deadline so just threw something together. He should’ve gone with “ ‘I Love Lucy’ meets ‘Selling New York’.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Brenda Helt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Co-editor <i>Queer Bloomsbury</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury-13031.html">https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury-13031.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anne Fernald<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] "New Yorker" cartoon from 2003<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Explaining jokes is always a fool's errand, and it's hard for me to see who's talking to whom about whom in the image. (And yet, in I dive.)<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But the caption seems to me to capture something about the deep inside of Boston/Cambridge bourgeois-bohemianism: she's haute; he's down-to-earth NPR-listening auto-mechanic type. A joke about culture clash w/in the NPR-listening world.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Neverow, Vara S. <<a href="mailto:neverowv1@southernct.edu" target="_blank">neverowv1@southernct.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div id="m_6838193668513325878divtagdefaultwrapper"><p><span style='color:black'>Dear Stuart, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'>Could the witticism be related to the woman on the right who has her face turned away and her hand to her throat as if the conversation has no appeal to her? Perhaps the cartoonist did not know that Woolf was interested in cars, as indicated by Ann Martin's research? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'>Vara<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id="m_6838193668513325878Signature"><div name=divtagdefaultwrapper><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times","serif";color:black'>Vara Neverow<br>Department of English<br>Southern Connecticut State University<br>New Haven, CT 06515<br>203-392-6717<br><a href="mailto:neverowv1@southernct.edu" target="_blank">neverowv1@southernct.edu</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black'><hr size=3 width="98%" align=center></span></div><div id="m_6838193668513325878divRplyFwdMsg"><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+neverowv1=<a href="mailto:southernct.edu@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">southernct.edu@lists.osu.edu</a>> on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke <<a href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com" target="_blank">stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 13, 2017 2:28 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] "New Yorker" cartoon from 2003</span><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Much as I like Wm. Hamilton’s cartoons, I don’t get this one.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Stuart<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><img border=0 width=491 height=387 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.png@01D32C8D.08725D80" alt=image><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.osu.edu_mailman_listinfo_vwoolf&d=DwICAg&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=k1OoytuRmrU4MiIwbI-7ElFohPGR5Vr0JxDyMjG9DsI&m=dNL5U-kY1bWF5wzSD-5OY2sRqSCf3pqAmR-u2geHtMc&s=Xv6ATxCzD3YhWJzHPtf1_y2Zk2j6vCj-oH0-9bTH494&e=" target="_blank">https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.osu.edu_mailman_listinfo_vwoolf&d=DwICAg&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=k1OoytuRmrU4MiIwbI-7ElFohPGR5Vr0JxDyMjG9DsI&m=dNL5U-kY1bWF5wzSD-5OY2sRqSCf3pqAmR-u2geHtMc&s=Xv6ATxCzD3YhWJzHPtf1_y2Zk2j6vCj-oH0-9bTH494&e=</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.fordham.edu/info/24101/anne_fernald" target="_blank">Anne E. 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