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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Enjoyed this piece enormously, thanks, Jeanne.<br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>I see that André Aciman is the author of Call Me by Your Name, which I know from the film rather than the book. Interesting that he thinks if you don't understand something then it doesn't make sense. Personally, I'd give any writer of reputation the benefit of the doubt and assume that the onus is on me to try harder. Aciman doesn't tell us what his 'couple of questions' are, but it seems just as possible that his interlocutors failed to make sense of his questions as that they couldn't make sense of Woolf's novel. But maybe they were too polite to say so to his face.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Sarah<br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Sarah M. Hall</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Virginia Woolf Society of GB<br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span></span><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, 6 May 2021, 16:34:59 BST, Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057"><div><div class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057WordSection1"><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal">Thank you Jeanne. Where on earth would we be without helpful men like Mr Aciman (whoever he is)?! …</p><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal">“How much thinking those old gentlemen used to save one! How the borders of ignorance shrank back at their approach! Cats do not go to heaven. Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare.”</p><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"> </p><div class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057yqt6902920311" id="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057yqt06088"><div style="border-color: rgb(225, 225, 225) currentcolor currentcolor; border-style: solid none none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeanne Dubino via Vwoolf<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 6, 2021 11:17 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> vwoolf listserve <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] article in *The Nation*</p></div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal">Hello All,</p><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal">Of interest (especially for cat lovers)!</p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal">Alyssa Harad, "Helpful Men: Defending Philip Roth, Dismissing Virginia Woolf": <a shape="rect" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.thenation.com/article/culture/virginia-woolf-roth-andre-aciman/__;!!KGKeukY!nZ-A1Clw-N05sMKaAcLkXHeRBsK3ZdntBupxGYNoxcN_NR-cykCezmOEQtbQJOj5FSI$" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/virginia-woolf-roth-andre-aciman/</a></p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal">All best,</p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal">Jeanne<br clear="all"></p><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal">-- </p><div><div><div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">Jeanne Dubino</span></p><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">Professor, English and Global Studies</span></p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">Department of Interdisciplinary Studies</span></p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">LLC 131</span></p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">ASU Box 32080</span></p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">Appalachian State University</span></p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">Boone, North Carolina 28608</span></p></div><div><p class="ydp85b22183yiv0795678057MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">phone: 828-262-7598; fax: 828-262-6400</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ydp85b22183yqt6902920311" id="ydp85b22183yqt50932">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Vwoolf mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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