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And was John Lehman himself being pseudo-Vorticist in these manifesto-like passages?
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On 09/16/2020 9:15 AM Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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I *think* “the
<span style="color: #000000;">pretence-new” = the pretend-new = the pretended new. After all, ex America semper aliquid novi.</span>
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<strong>Sent:</strong> Wednesday, September 16, 2020 1:54 PM
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<strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [Vwoolf] questions about John Lehmann and Woolf
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<em><span style="font-family: arial; color: #000000;">a new kind of journalism ... to drive the ... </span><span style="font-family: arial; color: #000000;">New Statesman </span><span style="font-family: arial; color: #000000;">and </span><span style="font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Spectator</span><span style="font-family: arial; color: #000000;"> off the stage, </span></em>
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<span style="font-family: arial; color: #000000; font-style: italic;">> and usurp the </span>
<span style="font-style: italic; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">pretence-new of the pseudo-American</span>
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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><br>I'm only guessing, but I'll jump in:<br><br>The <em>pretence-new </em>is the most intriguing part of the phrasing, to my eye. Could this be a Frenchified way of saying "the new pretension", constructing pretension in the phrase itself? <br><br>If so, then the aim is to take over the new pretension of the pseudo-American -- which I read as saying to take over a recently fashionable stance of trying to sound American. What it would mean to take this over -- 'to adopt that position themselves' seems unlikely, and 'usurp', with its connotations of an unjust action, seems an odd choice -- I couldn't say.<br><br>I don't know enough about the context to know whether this is reasonable, but I prefer it to the "Americans are crass" interpretation :-)<br><br>(Reminds me of a tedious trip to London on a *packed* train during which a rude American in the window seats of our row of three -- I was on the aisle -- talked non-stop to her travelling companion, who faced her from the adjacent row of three. We heard all about her -- they were bassoonists in an orchestra together, and, among other things, she told tuba jokes -- because she didn't shut up except for a brief respite when she went to the toilet, and her subject was mainly herself.<br><br>I didn't say anything. But when we stepped off the train at Waterloo, I said to the British people who'd occupied the other 3 seats in our 6-person group, "We're not all like that" -- and they absolutely cracked up!)<br><br>Mary Ellen</span>
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:36 AM 陈栩 via Vwoolf <
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<span style="font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial; font-variant: normal; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-style: normal; text-align: left; display: inline; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px;">I have some difficulty in understanding the red short quotations that I am using in my writing as is attached below. <span style="font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial; font-variant: normal; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-style: normal; text-align: left; display: inline; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px;">I wonder if you could help me clarify them? </span>They are parts of Lehmann's journal taken from page 84 in his biography <em>John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure</em>:</span>
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<p style="line-height: 150%;"><strong>Wanted: a new kind of journalism in London to drive the elderly softnesses and condescensions of the </strong><em><strong>New Statesman </strong></em><strong>and </strong><em><strong>Spectator</strong></em><strong> off the stage, and usurp the </strong><strong>pretence-new of the pseudo-American</strong><strong>;</strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;"><strong>Wanted: a new kind of art to blow the spunkless complacencies of Bloomsbury sky-high;</strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;"><strong>Wanted: a new kind of writing that has really caught a spark from the true machine of modern life, the machine </strong><strong>in the terrible powerhouse just off the boulevard</strong></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial; font-variant: normal; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-transform: none; float: none; font-weight: 400; color: #000000; font-style: normal; text-align: left; display: inline; letter-spacing: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px;">The context is Lehmann's conflicts with the Woolfs which trigger his departure from Hogarth in 1932 and also consolidate his determination to launch a magazine which turns out to be<em> New Writing</em>. So my questions are</span></p>
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