[Vwoolf] The Duke of Cambridge

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

Not 100% sure that it is the statue that they are looking at Stuart . . .

Jeremy H
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Subject: [Vwoolf] The Duke of Cambridge

No, the other one!

“He [Peter Walsh] was not old, or set, or dried in the least. As for caring what they said of him—the Dalloways, the Whitbreads, and their set, he cared not a straw—not a straw (though it was true he would have, some time or other, to see whether Richard couldn't help him to some job). Striding, staring, he glared at the statue of the Duke of Cambridge.” (“Mrs. Dalloway”)

“True, they had money and power, but only at the cost of harbouring in their breasts an eagle, a vulture, for ever tearing the liver out and plucking at the lungs—the instinct for possession, the rage for acquisition which drives them to desire other people's fields and goods perpetually; to make frontiers and flags; battleships and poison gas; to offer up their own lives and their children's lives. ... These are unpleasant instincts to harbour, I reflected. They are bred of the conditions of life; of the lack of civilisation, I thought, looking at the statue of the Duke of Cambridge, and in particular at the feathers in his cocked hat, with a fixity that they have scarcely ever received before.” (“A Room of One’s Own”)

On 23 November 2012, passers-by looked at the statue “with a fixity that [it has] scarcely ever received before”:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/naked-man-climbs-statue-in-whitehall-1452398

Stuart







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