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<DIV>In the past (on this list?), there was huge discussion about the desk: what
happened to it? who cut it down? who painted it? why did VW use it? to be like
her sister, a painter? Above all, for how long did she use it?</DIV>
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<DIV>Nice pic here (if it were in focus):</DIV>
<DIV><A title=https://today.duke.edu/2015/04/baskinrelease
href="https://today.duke.edu/2015/04/baskinrelease">https://today.duke.edu/2015/04/baskinrelease</A></DIV>
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<DIV>My brief summary:</DIV>
<DIV>In 1929 VW gave it QB, who painted it; Anne Olivier Bell cut it down by
6". Also see correspondence between Colin Franklin and Leonard Baskin; the
former promised the desk to Leonard Baskin. Lisa said Franklin gave the
desk to *her*; see: <A
href="https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/essays/insatiable-lust">https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/essays/insatiable-lust</A></DIV>
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<DIV>How did Franklin get it?</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Jeremy
Hawthorn via Vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 27, 2020 10:49 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] E pluribus unum</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P>Nice one Stuart!<BR></P>
<P>Out of curiosity I Googled <Virginia Woolf + lectern>. Didn't get any
eagles apart from the ones listed by Stuart, but I did get this.</P>
<P><A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/woolfdesk">https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/woolfdesk</A></P>
<P>Never knew that Woolf wrote while standing up. Now I do.</P>
<P>Jeremy H</P>
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 27.10.2020 11:25, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
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<DIV>“the subservient eagle bears up for inspection the great white book”
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<DIV>the ‘brass eagle carrying the Bible on its back’ (VO)</DIV>
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<DIV>‘a Bible spread on the back of the brass eagle’ (W)</DIV>
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<DIV>Cf. </DIV>
<DIV>‘a large brass fowl, of pious expression, supported a huge Bible’</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" color=#222222>[Tessa lifts out a small
framed painting and holds it up.] …</FONT></EM></P>
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color=#222222><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><EM
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box">McCorquodale:<SPAN> </SPAN></EM>It was my
intention to represent – in a symbolic fashion – the Christian
church.</FONT></FONT></P>
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color=#222222><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><EM
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box">Tessa: <SPAN> </SPAN></EM>A bird of prey
carrying an olive branch. You’ve put the matter in a
nutshell.</FONT></FONT></P><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"><FONT
color=#222222>(‘Funeral Games’ (1968) by Joe Orton)</FONT><BR
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