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

[Stuart N. Clarke]

Lytton Strachey on Shakespeare:

“For some reason or another, the end of a man’s life seems naturally to afford the light by which the rest of it should be read; last thoughts do appear in some strange way to be really best and truest; and this is particularly the case when they fit in nicely with the rest of the story, and are, perhaps, just what one likes to think oneself.”

“Books & Characters” (Chatto & Windus, 1924), p.43

From: Morgne Cramer via Vwoolf 
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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 …)



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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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