[Vwoolf] The New York Public Library’s Collection of Weird Objects - Virginia Woolf’s cane

[Morgne Cramer]

 Karen, I so agree with you. Entirely.  What poor taste and judgement. Morgne Cramer
    On Thursday, July 12, 2018, 1:19:54 PM EDT, Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:  
 
 
Agreed! (and I wonder how much of their straitened budget went to its purchase …)

  

From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Gregory Jordan Dekter via Vwoolf
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It's disturbing to see NYPL's focus for this curio remains on Woolf's suicide, not her life in general, or her contribution to society. No doubt that cane took many other journeys with its user, but the final one is the only one that seems to matter. Their propensity for titillation over context is especially evident, given the curator's claim that these objects express some kind of exceptional knowledge of the person who owned them. I'm not entirely sure how that's supposed to work. 

  

On 12 July 2018 at 12:30, K L Levenback via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:


https://start.att.net/player/category/news/article/the_new_yorker_video-the_new_york_public_librarys_collection_of_weird_o-condenast



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