<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Thanks, Stuart! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">My supervisor would have been delighted to have confirmation from VW herself that the British never came back from Rangoon! Unlike Kipling's sailor who yearns to go back to Mandalay, if not quite to Rangoon. And those aunts belong to Forster, presumably. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Is there an article or chapter to be found generally on VW and India? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">All best. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="monospace,monospace">Harish Trivedi</font> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 March 2018 at 14:26, Stuart N. Clarke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com" target="_blank">stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><span><font face="Times New Roman">No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than
we are without our astonishing gift for illusion. At the age of twelve or so,
having given up dolls and broken our steam engines, France, but much more
probably Italy, and India almost for a certainty, draws the superfluous
imagination. One’s aunts have been to Rome; and every one has an uncle who was
last heard of—poor man—in Rangoon. He will never come back any more. But it is
the governesses who start the Greek myth. </font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Times New Roman">(JR, ch. XII, p. 223 1st Hogarth)</font></span></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Harish
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 1, 2018 6:14 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="fernald@fordham.edu">Anne Fernald</a> </div>
<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Virginia Woolf</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] did Woolf read the Gita?</div></div></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:large;FONT-FAMILY:georgia,serif">Finally, could anyone
please help me find the chapter and verse for an obiter dictum by VW that I have
cherished for long which goes something like: "Both India and Italy exercise the
superfluous imagination." My supervisor Frank Bradbrook used to say that
VW sent her characters off to India to get them out of the way for a while or to
die. And of course there aren't too many of those either. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:large;FONT-FAMILY:georgia,serif">All best. </div>
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