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<div dir="ltr">Dear Claire, Edward, and Woolfians,<div><br></div><div>I wish I could put my finger on it, but I can't. I would look to Dora Zhang's work on the stream of consciousness, but her chapter in the Oxford Handbook does not seem to be the place, and a quick google book search of her book doesn't either, so maybe I'm misremembering.</div><div><br></div><div>In the Ox. Handbook, though, there is a nice meditation on "gig lamps" from Kathryn Simpson's chapter that feels rich:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size:15px">Her recognition of her reliance on her friends and lovers to satisfy her need for experience and an ever-expanded vision seems encapsulated in her assertion that ‘I use my friends rather as giglamps; Theres [sic] another field I see: by your light. Over there’s a hill. I widen my landscape’ (</span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,42,42)">D</em><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size:15px">3 316). While, as she asserts in ‘Modern Fiction’, our life experiences are not ordered into a neat series of discrete events—‘gig lamps, symmetrically arranged’—but are rather ‘a luminous halo; a semi-transparent envelope’ (</span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(42,42,42)">E</em><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size:15px">4 160), so her gig lamps of friendship create an expansive network of interconnections that support her as a writer, respond to her complex and contradictory needs, and sustain her as a woman. (33)</span></div></blockquote><div><font color="#2a2a2a" face="Merriweather, serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#2a2a2a" face="arial, sans-serif">Gig lamps of friendship. That's beautiful. Maybe that helps?</font></div><div><font color="#2a2a2a" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#2a2a2a" face="arial, sans-serif">Yours,</font></div><div><font color="#2a2a2a" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#2a2a2a"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Anne</font></font></div><div><font color="#2a2a2a"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br clear="all"></font></font><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.fordham.edu/info/24101/anne_fernald__;!!KGKeukY!2hzYfQL7rR5hPDYdMXjOwBAuPZE540oojqBGepCMm4O59ZEFSbUmZ-iEeLXN9aVKJ6ZSrntg--UiBklEp_juYxs$" target="_blank">Anne E. 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I have’t read any of the discussions or debates, but probably they all quote the 3 September 1928 (I haven’t checked the date, possibly wrong) diary entry, possibly relevant as a way of saying the same thing (in the sentence that begins “How</div>
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<div>I have’t read any of the discussions or debates, but probably they all quote the 3 September 1928 (I haven’t checked the date, possibly wrong) diary entry, possibly relevant as a way of saying the same thing (in the sentence that begins “How dificult…”):<div><br></div><div>"That is one of the experiences I have had here in some Augusts; & got then to a consciousness of what I call 'reality': a thing I see before me; something abstract; but residing in the downs or sky; beside which nothing matters; in which I shall rest & continue to exist. Reality I call it. And I fancy sometimes this is the most necessary thing to me: that which I seek. But who knows—once one takes a pen & writes? How difficult not to go making 'reality' this & that, whereas it is one thing. Now perhaps this is my gift; this perhaps is what distinguishes me from other people; I think it may be rare to have so acute a sense of something like that—but again, who knows? I would like to express it too."<br id="m_-7948109145769886753lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 27, 2024, at 10:38 AM, Claire Battershill via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt">Dearest Woolfians, </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt">I hope this finds you well and enjoying the last days of August. </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt">I'm writing to ask if anyone could point me to some discussions and debates about the meaning of Woolf's frequently quoted passage about "life" from "Modern Fiction" (“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged’ but a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end”)? I know the 'gig lamps' have been variously defined (as spectacles by Julia Briggs, for instance); and this little bit is frequently quoted in relation to broader writings on consciousness, but I'd love to be pointed in the direction of further discussion and interpretation of this fascinating passage. I love for instance Jane Goldman's connection of the landscape of Skye to the image and the re-appearance of the phrase "semi-transparent" in her piece on the two postcards in the Miscellany. </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt">The halo, the gig lamps, the envelope...a lot going on! </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks so much for your thoughts and any references you might share,</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt">Claire</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div id="m_-7948109145769886753Signature" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(94,50,124)">Dr. Claire Battershill (she/her)</div><div style="text-align:left;margin:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(94,50,124)">Assistant Professor</div><div style="text-align:left;margin:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(94,50,124)">Faculty of Information & Department of English</div><div style="text-align:left;margin:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;color:rgb(94,50,124)"><span style="font-size:16px">Wendy M. 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