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<DIV>Possibly “Rambling Round Evelyn” in CR1:</DIV>
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align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13.6pt">But
to return to happiness. It sometimes appears that if there is an insoluble
difference between our ancestors and ourselves it is that we draw our happiness
from different sources. We rate the same things at different values. Something
of this we may ascribe to their ignorance and our knowledge. But are we to
suppose that ignorance alters the nerves and the affections? Are we to believe
that it would have been an intolerable penance for us to live familiarly with
the Elizabethans? Should we have found it necessary to leave the room because of
Shakespeare's habits, and to have refused Queen Elizabeth's invitation to
dinner? Perhaps so. For Evelyn was a sober man of unusual refinement, and yet he
pressed into a torture chamber as we crowd to see the lions
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13.6pt">. . . they
first bound his wrists with a strong rope or small cable, and one end of it to
an iron ring made fast to the wall about four feet from the floor, and then
his feet with another cable, fastened about five feet farther than his utmost
length to another ring on the floor of the room. Thus suspended, and yet lying
but aslant, they slid a horse of wood under the rope which bound his feet,
which so exceedingly stiffened it, as severed the fellow's joints in miserable
sort, drawing him out at length in an extraordinary manner, he having only a
pair of linen drawers upon his naked body . . .</FONT></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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align=justify><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13.6pt">And
so on. Evelyn watched this to the end, and then remarked that "the spectacle was
so uncomfortable that I was not able to stay the sight of another", as we might
say that the lions growl so loud and the sight of raw meat is so unpleasant that
we will now visit the penguins. Allowing for his discomfort, there is enough
discrepancy between his view of pain and ours to make us wonder whether we see
any fact with the same eyes, marry any woman from the same motives, or judge any
conduct by the same standards. To sit passive when muscles tore and bones
cracked, not to flinch when the wooden horse was raised higher and the
executioner fetched a horn and poured two buckets of water down the man's
throat, to suffer this iniquity on a suspicion of robbery which the man
denied--all this seems to put Evelyn in one of those cages where we still
mentally seclude the riff-raff of Whitechapel. Only it is obvious that we have
somehow got it wrong. If we could maintain that our susceptibility to suffering
and love of justice were proof that all our humane instincts were as highly
developed as these, then we could say that the world improves, and we with
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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>Morgne
Cramer via Vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 31, 2021 1:19 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] seeking a source</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Woolfians,</P>
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am trying to recall a passage I read long ago and cannot even remember if it was
an essay or short story. What I recall is Woolf or her narrator is talking about
how as civilization changes our emotional responses to the suffering of others
changes too. The image I recall (vaguely) was her comparing times in history
when people could walk by public hangings without much disturbance while in her
time most people could not endure watching a public hanging without pain, severe
upset, and public hangings were no longer acceptable.</P>
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know this is vague—but does anyone recognize these "moment" in her prose and the
source?</P>
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<P class=ydp443bd2f7MsoNormal
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Cramer</P></DIV>
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