[Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf boot

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

Yes. If I'm ever in a TV quiz show and have a chance to win a million 
dollars for knowing which novel ends with the word "shoes" I am, as 
people used to say in Britain, laughing tanners. Seriously, what a 
fantastic ending that novel has.

Jeremy H


On 10.12.2019 22:07, Childress, Marcia Day (mdf4e) wrote:
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> And then there are the empty shoes in /Jacob's Room/ ….
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> *From: *Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+mdf4e=virginia.edu at lists.osu.edu> on 
> behalf of Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> *Reply-To: *Jeremy Hawthorn <jeremy.hawthorn at ntnu.no>
> *Date: *Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 4:03 PM
> *To: *"vwoolf at lists.osu.edu" <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> *Subject: *[Vwoolf] Virginia Woolf boot
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> 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?
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> Jeremy Hawthorn
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