[Vwoolf] a video on why Woolf matters

[Jeannette Smyth]

The beauty of the quotidian: moments of being.

There's also a remarkable thread thru "A Haunted House" , On Being Ill,  and her statement somewhere in the shards of her madness (at Hogarth?), she saw and heard her mother again, was it? The ghosts of Thoby, Jacob, Percival, and Mrs. Ramsay form a lacuna at the center of her designs which is modern and tragic and abstract all at once. 

The numinousness of it all, and in this age where the writing of novels seems to be a paleolithic exercise for scholars of dead language, I think a video about Virginia Woolf should at least touch on her sense that writing mattered, that you could absolutely strike sentences out of the rock hard crystal to last forever, that it was the only way there was to get the moments of being to stay a while. They were so beautiful. From John Bayley's 1984 review of the final volume of the diary:

"Katherine Mansfield writes in her journal what Virginia Woolf’s Diary continually implies: ‘I must not forget that.’ She must not forget the way the hens looked, and how the rain soaked her thin shoes. A few days before her death Virginia Woolf recorded the haddock and sausage meat. ‘I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.’"
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v06/n16/john-bayley/superchild

The sausage and the haddock.

Jeannette Smyth



On Oct 27, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Candis McLean wrote:

> How do people really communicate? It has nothing to do with words.
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> From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+hcmclean=shaw.ca at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Kristin Czarnecki
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> To: Andre Gerard; Ella Ophir
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> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] a video on why Woolf matters
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> The beauty and importance to be found in the everyday, the quotidian aspects of life.
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> From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+kristin_czarnecki=georgetowncollege.edu at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Andre Gerard
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 1:31 PM
> To: Ella Ophir
> Cc: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu; ilana.simons at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] a video on why Woolf matters
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> Thinking in common...culture as a collective enterprise.
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> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Ella Ophir <e.ophir at usask.ca> wrote:
> Certainly the nature of the "self," its fluidity, instability, permeability (Mrs. D for a lacunalloway: ". . . she would not say of Peter, she would not say of herself, I am this, I am that.") All her writing on biography and autobiography, what it is to "know" oneself or another. 
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> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Ilana Simons <ilana.simons at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi group,
> I'm seeking input--I'd love a group brainstorm leading to a video about V Woolf.
>  
> My Project:
> I'm making a video about Woolf for The School of Life, a learning center partly founded by Alain de Botton, in which philosophy is made (more) accessible.  The center produces a video series about big thinkers.  See here for examples:
> https://www.youtube.com/theschooloflifetv
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> Each video in the series tries to isolate 1-4 big ideas developed by thinkers.  you can check out the link above for how they do this.
>  
> Our Challenge: 
> If you had to name 1-4 aspects of life in which Woolf thought more deeply than others have, what would those topics be?  
> And what are the ways in which she developed that aspect of life?
>  
> Possible Examples:
>  
> 1. Gender.  
> Woolf looked at how the genders occupied their traditional gender roles, and how these roles served to create a sense of commitment, of community, but also served to distance the genders from each other....
>  
> 2. Role of Silence in communication
> Woolf had a sense of what goes unspoken in any conversation, attuning us to how much of our communication is transmitted between the words we actually speak.
>  
> 3. Time
> or Solitude
> or ...wanna throw an idea in the hat?  I'd appreciate your brainwork.
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> Thanks
> Ilana
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