[Vwoolf] Shooting in "To the Lighthouse"

[Diane Reynolds]

And, while they were hardly bosom buddies—Henry James and Christie’s father knew each other from the same wealthy NYC circles and James visited Christie’s childhood home—but you no doubt know this! It is another Woolf tangential intersection. 

> 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>
>  
> Stuart
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