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As we all know, one thing leads to another, and for about an hour I've been puzzling about the etymology of gig = booking to perform. Once again Eric Partridge came to my rescue; In
<i>A Dictionary of Slang</i> he suggests gig = dance (a variant of jig perhaps). This usage is especially African American, jazz, and popular music related in origin it seems, although it's pretty universal now (with offshoots such as "gig economy").</div>
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Then a sudden panic: should Woolf's gig lamp be pronounced jig lamp? Fortunately my old SOED says no: the g is hard.</div>
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Eric Partridge's etymological book "Origins" suggests that the coach - whirligig (= spinning top) link is that of lightness and manoeuvrability. Jeremy H Professor Emeritus Department of Language and Literature NTNU 7491 Trondheim</div>
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I have to say that I was a bit shocked to see that, according to this Wikipedia article, 'gig' is short for 'whirligig', which in Paul de Man's "Autobiography as De-facement" is famously glossed as 'tourniquet' in French (the meaning</div>
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I have to say that I was a bit shocked to see that, according to this Wikipedia article, 'gig' is short for 'whirligig', which in Paul de Man's "Autobiography as De-facement" is famously glossed as 'tourniquet' in French (the meaning being, in my understanding,
that of a rotating door, although I am aware that 'tourniquet' can also mean other things in French). So, for many years, I have taken 'whirligig' to mean a rotating door and I had not noticed the connection to 'gig'. </div>
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Now I feel a little lost, but the fact that neither myself nor Paul de Man are English natives, although English is in both cases the main language of academic expression (in spite of my having learned French and Dutch and de Man being known to have learned
some Romanian), might have something to do with it. Again, I'm sure Woolfians with lived experience of being raised in Britain are uniquely situated to solve the puzzle (I'm saying all of this with a slight wink to Woolf's remarks on translation and cultural
differences, discussed at the latest Salon). I think there is so much that gets lost not just in translation, but in the passage of time and the change of technology, and I'm grateful to those who can still shed light on the world Woolf actually moved around
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This is in any case all fascinating, especially the Proust and Conrad connections, which seem anything but accidental.</div>
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I am not at all comfortable with the image of gigs outside a theatre. (In JR the ref. is to “carriages” – I know that’s a generic word, but . . .) Gigs were nasty, dangerous (see “Jack Mytton”), draughty things, seating only two people, suitable</div>
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<div>I am not at all comfortable with the image of gigs outside a theatre. (In JR the ref. is to “carriages” – I know that’s a generic word, but . . .) Gigs were nasty, dangerous (see “Jack Mytton”), draughty things, seating only two people, suitable for
dashing young men-about-town. You would be more likely to see rows of them at a race course than outside a theatre. You might have hired a gig and driven it yourself, but I don’t think a gig with driver would be waiting for customers, for it would only have
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<div>You can see the lamps in the lower photos here:</div>
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<div>but it’s an unusual “skeleton” gig with two horses.</div>
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I think that may be the opera scene in Jacob's Room. On 8/28/2024 9: 18 AM, Mark Hussey via Vwoolf wrote: I think I must have read this somewhere (i. e. not my idea) long ago, that the 'series' of gig lamps called to mind an image of the gigs</div>
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<p>I think that may be the opera scene in Jacob's Room.<br>
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I think I must have read this somewhere (i. e. not my idea) long ago, that the 'series' of gig lamps called to mind an image of the gigs lined up, their lamps lit, perhaps outside a theatre, waiting for customers in the evening And not</div>
<div dir="ltr">I think I must have read this somewhere (i.e. not my idea) long ago, that the 'series' of gig lamps called to mind an image of the gigs lined up, their lamps lit, perhaps outside a theatre, waiting for customers in the evening
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<div>And not that it is particularly relevant to this image, but Proust also uses the image of a 'transparent envelope' in
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Dear Ann, Thank you for this rich parallel. I think you dotted the "i" here, since Woolf was so interested in looking not just at the "moments of being" (when life is in the spotlight, so to say) but also at the "cotton</div>
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Dear Ann,</div>
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Thank you for this rich parallel. I think you dotted the "i" here, since Woolf was so interested in looking not just at the "moments of being" (when life is in the spotlight, so to say) but also at the "cotton wool" that surrounds them and in understanding
how they are embedded and how they emerge from his "non-being". To me the "semi-transparent envelope" reads sometimes like a prefiguration of the "cotton wool" and the "gig lamps" read somewhat like the moments of being - or, moreover, like moments of awareness,
which Woolf emphasizes as asymmetrical and unpredictable, hard to sum up or fit into a series.
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There are indeed so many echoes between these images, and yet each also stands alone with such uniqueness and force.
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A great new semester to all of you,</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] Gig Lamps and Orlando....</font>
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With regard to Laura's reading, I'm wondering how the lights and lamps in "Modern Fiction" relate to that scene in _Orlando_ in which Orlando and Pope are in the carriage: "Lamp-posts list with oil-lamps occurred every two hundred</div>
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With regard to Laura's reading, I'm wondering how the lights and lamps in "Modern Fiction" relate to that scene in _Orlando_ in which Orlando and Pope are in the carriage:</div>
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"Lamp-posts list with oil-lamps occurred every two hundred yards or so, but between lay a considerable stretch of pitch darkness. Thus for ten minutes Orlando and Mr Pope would be in blackness; and then for about half a minute again in the light. A very strange
state of mind was thus bred in Orlando."</div>
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It associates with the final drive out of the city, but here the lamp posts and lamp lights suggest a symmetrical, linear movement of time and space, but here it's...variegated (and resonates for me with "Evening Over Sussex").</div>
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The clusters of images that arise in Woolf's work....</div>
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All best,</div>
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