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<p>I don't have any specific verbal echoes to reference, but
passages such as these from <i>Lord Jim</i> do make me think of
Woolf's presentation of Jacob.<br>
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"These were things he could not explain to the court – and not
even to me; but I would have been little fitted for the reception
of his confidences had I not been able at times to understand the
pauses between the words."<br>
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"'I don’t pretend I understood him. The views he let me have of
himself were like those glimpses through the shifting rents in a
thick fog – bits of vivid and vanishing detail, giving no
connected idea of the general aspect of a country. They fed one's
curiosity without satisfying it; they were no good for purposes of
orientation."<br>
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"There is much truth - after all - in the common expression 'under
a cloud.' It is impossible to see him clearly – especially as it
is through the eyes of others that we take our last look at him."<br>
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"Now he is no more, there are days when the reality of his
existence comes to me with an immense, with an overwhelming force;
and yet upon my honour there are moments, too, when he passes from
my eyes like a disembodied spirit astray amongst the passions of
this earth, ready to surrender himself faithfully to the claim of
his own world of shades."</p>
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However, the following sentence in <i>Jacob’s Room</i>: "But
words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left
exposed to the dust of the street" does remind me of this one from
Conrad's "Typhoon": "And Captain MacWhirr wrote home from the
coast of China twelve times every year, desiring quaintly to be
'remembered to the children,' and subscribing himself 'your loving
husband,' as calmly as if the words so long used by so many men
were, apart from their shape, worn-out things, and of a faded
meaning."<br>
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Of course, we may well be talking here of a more general set of
ideas about the mystery of other people that belong to a common
modernist currency rather than just to two writers.<br>
<br>
Jeremy H<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18.12.2018 15:09, Christine Froula
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<p>... and, of course, Woolf described the Polish Conrad as "our
guest" and "a better writer than the rest of us put together"...
I have a few pages on Woolf's reading of Conrad in relation to
The Voyage Out in <i>VW and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde</i> (and
some on Conrad and The Waves in a forthcoming piece); the Lord
Jim =} Jacob connection seems intriguing; do you find close
textual echoes?</p>
<p>Christine<br>
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<p>I've often wondered to what extent a more general influence
of <i>Lord Jim</i> can be traced in <i>Jacob's Room</i> -
all the stuff about Marlow never seeing Jim clearly, that he
is observed through a mist, and so on. In like manner the
reader sees Jacob doing and saying all sorts of things, but
ends up with a sense of his unknowability. In both cases,
intimacy is denied.</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>Jeremy H<br>
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