<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">And my first thought is that the “powerhouse” quote has echoes of futurism.<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 15, 2020, at 4:09 PM, Madelyn Detloff via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">My first thought about the pseudo American is someone like the American in-law or love interest in an Agatha Christie novel — crass, impolite, and uncultured, but somewhat pretty or handsome. <div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div>My 2 cents....<br><br><div dir="ltr">Madelyn Detloff<div>Professor and Chair, English</div><div>Professor, Global and Intercultural Studies</div><div>Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056</div><div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPad. Please excuse automiscorrections. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 15, 2020, at 6:36 PM, 陈栩 via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Dear friends,</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> It is the first time that I have come here for help.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I have some difficulty in understanding the red short quotations that I am using in my writing as is attached below. <span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 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 <i>John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure</i>:</span></div><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-variant: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",serif;="" font-size:="" 20px;"=""><b>Wanted: a new kind of journalism in London to drive the elderly softnesses
and condescensions of the </b><i><b>New Statesman </b></i><b>and </b><i><b>Spectator</b></i><b> off the
stage, and usurp the </b><span style="color: red; line-height: 150%; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",serif;"=""><b>pretence-new of the pseudo-American</b></span><b>;</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",serif;="" font-size:="" 20px;"=""><b>Wanted: a new kind of art to blow the spunkless complacencies of Bloomsbury
sky-high;</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height:150%"><span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",serif;="" font-size:="" 20px;"=""><b>Wanted: a new kind of writing that has really caught a spark from the true
machine of modern life, the machine </b><span style="color: red; line-height: 150%; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",serif;="" font-size:="" 20px;"=""><b>in the terrible
powerhouse just off the boulevard</b></span></span></p>
</span><p style="line-height:150%"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 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<i> New Writing</i>. So my questions are</span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1. What does the "pretence-new of the pseudo-American" mean in the first item? It seems most puzzling.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">2. Do you think the powerhouse just off the boulevard might refer to Hogarth Press or probably the Bloomsbury Group? I'm afraid it should be a symbol here.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Thank you very much.</span></div><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="5" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All the best,</font></div><div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="5" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chen Xu</font></div><p style="margin: 0;"><font size="5"></font><br><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br></p><p style="margin: 0;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br></p><p><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br></p><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br><br><br><br><br><div id="dvLetterAngle"></div><div style="position:relative;zoom:1"></div></div><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Vwoolf mailing list</span><br><span>Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</span><br><span>https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Vwoolf mailing list</span><br><span>Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</span><br><span>https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>