[Vwoolf] Van Gogh and Woolf

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

There is this: 
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/interdisciplinarymultidisciplinary-woolf/vincent-van-gogh-virginia-woolf-and-old-shoes-a-crosscultural-iconography-of-historical-truama-from-the-great-war-to-the-iraq-war/5EA3E15CB9E58C2E8E90A74BE2F0A586>

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On 10.12.2019 22:02, Jeremy Hawthorn via Vwoolf wrote:
> 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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