[Vwoolf] Woolf Google doodle

[Byrne, Anne (Soc & Pol)]

Mary Datchet and autumn leaves...

‘No one could have guessed, from the look of her, that she was disturbed at all. A pleasanter and saner woman than Mary Datchet was never seen within a committee-room. She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine...’

Happy Birthday Virginia
Anne
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From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Jean Mallinson <annaj at telus.net>
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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



Fine artist

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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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