[Vwoolf] Shooting in "To the Lighthouse"

[Diane Reynolds]

Stuart, thank you, thank you—I am so interested in the intersection between Christie and Woolf—Harold Nicolson reviewed Christie’s books—I will look at this! I also find Austen a foremother for Christie as well as for Woolf. 

> On Apr 20, 2020, at 10:35 AM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
> 
> “Lily 
> Briscoe and Mr. Bankes, looking uneasily up into the sky, observed that the 
> flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun had settled on the tops 
> of the elm trees.”
>  
> In Agatha Christie’s “The Tragedy of Marsdon Manor” (which appeared in “Poirot Investigates”, 1924; story originally published in “The Sketch” in 1923), a rook rifle is relevant:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poirot_Investigates <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poirot_Investigates>
>  
> Rook rifle:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_rifle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_rifle>
>  
> No longer relevant nowadays, of course:
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> <20200420_143115[2].jpg>
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> Oh dear:
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> <20200420_143942[2].jpg>
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> Stuart
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