[Vwoolf] Woolf Google doodle
Jean Mallinson
annaj at telus.net
Thu Jan 25 18:18:19 EST 2018
Thanks fo these lovely and appropriate quotations!!
Jean
On 1/25/2018 10:12 AM, coruscate818 wrote:
>
> In that vein:
>
> "Jacob came back only in time to return his books.
>
> "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;"
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2018 12:28 PM, "Brenda S. Helt" <helt0010 at umn.edu
> <mailto:helt0010 at umn.edu>> wrote:
>
> It’s also a visual pun, as books have leaves.
>
> Slàinte!
>
> Brenda Helt
>
> Co-editor /Queer Bloomsbury/
>
> https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury.html
> <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury.html>
>
> Fine artist
>
> http://www.brendahelt.com <http://www.brendahelt.com/>
>
> *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>
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] Woolf Google doodle
>
> 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?"
>
> On Jan 25, 2018 10:49 AM, "Toni McNaron" <mcnar001 at umn.edu
> <mailto:mcnar001 at umn.edu>> wrote:
>
> 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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