<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="garamond, serif">As Anne astutely pointed out, "Car Talk" is referring to the NPR show. What follows does not attempt to explain the joke but traces Woolfian references/associations with the show. "Car Talk" featured the personalities "Click and Clack." <a href="http://wikidiff.com/click/clack">http://wikidiff.com/click/clack</a> <br>"Click": </font></div><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><font size="4" face="garamond, serif">* <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">1922 </span>, (<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">Virginia Woolf</span>), <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">(<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#w" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(244,71,58);outline:0px;text-decoration-line:none">w</a></span>, <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#Jacob's Room" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(244,71,58);outline:0px;text-decoration-line:none">Jacob's Room</a></span>) </em>Chapter 1</font></li><dl style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><dd style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><font size="4" face="garamond, serif">There was a <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">click </span>in the front sitting-room. Mr. Pearce had extinguished the lamp.</font></span></dd></dl><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="garamond, serif"><br><a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/360731558/tom-magliozzi-as-warm-in-real-life-as-he-was-on-the-radio?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202503">http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/360731558/tom-magliozzi-as-warm-in-real-life-as-he-was-on-the-radio?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202503</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif" size="4">"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Funny and smart and bighearted, Tom was as warm in real life as he was on the radio. They invited me up to their Good News Garage in Cambridge for a sock hop. His wife, Joanne, made me a poodle skirt. Tom was the perfect host: welcoming, gracious and so generous and good-spirited." </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="garamond, serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><article class="gmail-MediaCard gmail-MediaCard--mediaForward gmail-customisable-border" dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(28,32,34);font-family:Helvetica,Roboto,"Segoe UI",Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-MediaCard-media" style="width:500px;overflow:hidden;background-color:rgb(245,248,250)"><div class="gmail-MediaCard-widthConstraint gmail-js-cspForcedStyle" style="max-width:600px;margin:0px auto"><div class="gmail-MediaCard-mediaContainer gmail-js-cspForcedStyle" style="padding-bottom:281.656px"><a class="gmail-MediaCard-mediaAsset gmail-NaturalImage" href="https://twitter.com/cartalk/status/529365334596546560/photo/1" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(43,123,185);text-decoration-line:none;outline:0px;display:block;width:500px;height:281.656px;line-height:0"><img class="gmail-NaturalImage-image" width="600" height="338" title="View image on Twitter" alt="View image on Twitter" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1iu93LCAAEXdw5.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%; line-height: 0; height: auto;"></a></div></div></div></article><div class="gmail-EmbeddedTweet-tweet" style="padding:14.4px 20px 11.6px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(225,232,237);border-width:0px 1px 1px;border-radius:0px 0px 4px 4px;color:rgb(28,32,3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s... The highest, most prolonged volume of the horn transcends communication and expresses--at, say, the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel-frustration to the point of insanity... Car lights, too, say more than they used to. Having the controls on a stalk behind the steering wheel has considerably enhanced their eloquence.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Adobe Caslon",Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif"> "</span></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4">Linked to from "Car Talk" blog: "​<span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The Bird, the Wave, and the Shaka: Reading the Informal Language of Road Signals" </span><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2242777/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background:transparent;color:rgb(0,136,204);text-decoration-line:none;word-wrap:break-word">http://www.slate.com/id/2242777/</a></font></div><section class="gmail-post-menu-area gmail-clearfix" style="margin-bottom:10px;margin-top:20px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"></section><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">​</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Neverow, Vara S. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neverowv1@southernct.edu" target="_blank">neverowv1@southernct.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">




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<p>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
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Southern Connecticut State University<br>
New Haven, CT 06515<br>
<a href="tel:(203)%20392-6717" value="+12033926717" target="_blank">203-392-6717</a><br>
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<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</font>
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<div>Much as I like Wm. Hamilton’s cartoons, I don’t get this one.</div>
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