[Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf boot

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

Well, this did send me back to the text of /To the Lighthouse/ to find 
the sequence where Lily praises Mr Ramsay's boots. The novel is actually 
full of boots. There is an artist in Panama hat and yellow boots, Mrs 
Ramsay reports that her husband would talk by the hour about his boots, 
and Mr Bankes felt felt rigid and barren, like a pair of boots that have 
been soaked and gone dry so that you can hardly force your feet into 
them. A rough count in an electronic text reveals that "boot" and its 
cognates occur 24 times in the novel. Is Van Gogh lurking somewhere in 
the text?

Jeremy Hawthorn
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