[Vwoolf] Woolf Google doodle

[Jean Mallinson]

Thanks fo these lovely and appropriate  quotations!!

Jean


On 1/25/2018 10:12 AM, coruscate818 wrote:
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> In that vein:
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> "Jacob came back only in time to return his books.
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> "The books were now replaced. A few letters of the alphabet were 
> sprinkled round the dome. Closely stood together in a ring round the 
> dome were Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, and Shakespeare; the literature 
> of Rome, Greece, China, India, Persia. One leaf of poetry was pressed 
> flat against another leaf, one burnished letter laid smooth against 
> another in a density of meaning, a conglomeration of loveliness."
>
> [...]
>
> "The proximity of the omnibuses gave the outside passengers an 
> opportunity to stare into each other's faces. Yet few took advantage 
> of it. Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut 
> in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his 
> friends could only read the title, James Spalding, or Charles Budgeon, 
> and the passengers going the opposite way could read nothing at 
> all—save "a man with a red moustache," "a young man in grey smoking a 
> pipe." The October sunlight rested upon all these men and women 
> sitting immobile;"
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>
>
>
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> On Jan 25, 2018 12:28 PM, "Brenda S. Helt" <helt0010 at umn.edu 
> <mailto:helt0010 at umn.edu>> wrote:
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>     It’s also a visual pun, as books have leaves.
>
>     Slàinte!
>
>     Brenda Helt
>
>     Co-editor /Queer Bloomsbury/
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>     https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury.html
>     <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury.html>
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>     Fine artist
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>     http://www.brendahelt.com <http://www.brendahelt.com/>
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>     *From:*Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu
>     <mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu>] *On Behalf Of *coruscate818
>     *Sent:* Thursday, January 25, 2018 9:20 AM
>     *To:* Toni McNaron
>     *Cc:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
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>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] Woolf Google doodle
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>     In addition to /The Years, /falling leaves  also recur in /The
>     Waves, /especially//in connection with Rhoda, e.g.:
>
>     "Rhoda, with whom I shared silence when the others spoke, she who
>     hung back and turned aside when the herd assembled and galloped
>     with orderly, sleek backs over the rich pastures, has gone now
>     like the desert heat. When the sun blisters the roofs of the city
>     I think of her; when the dry leaves patter to the ground; when the
>     old men come with pointed sticks and pierce little bits of paper
>     as we pierced her--
>
>         O western wind, when wilt thou blow,
>         That the small rain down can rain?"
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>     On Jan 25, 2018 10:49 AM, "Toni McNaron" <mcnar001 at umn.edu
>     <mailto:mcnar001 at umn.edu>> wrote:
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>     I come down on the side of those of us who are delighted to see VW
>     in a doodle that will be seen, even if for a few seconds, by
>     millions of people.  As for the doodle itself, I like the color of
>     the leaves and Virginia's blouse.  It's subtle and haunting as a
>     shade.  Like Diana Swanson, I also thought about /The Years/,
>     especially one introduction to an autumn when leaves were being
>     violently blown about by heavy winds.
>
>     Toni McNaron
>
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