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[Jeremy Hawthorn]

Nice one Stuart!

Out of curiosity I Googled <Virginia Woolf + lectern>. Didn't get any 
eagles apart from the ones listed by Stuart, but I did get this.

https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/woolfdesk

Never knew that Woolf wrote while standing up. Now I do.

Jeremy H


On 27.10.2020 11:25, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:
> “the subservient eagle bears up for inspection the great white book” (JR)
> the ‘brass eagle carrying the Bible on its back’ (VO)
> ‘a Bible spread on the back of the brass eagle’ (W)
> Cf.
> ‘a large brass fowl, of pious expression, supported a huge Bible’
> (Osbert Sitwell, “Before the Bombardment” (Duckworth, 1926, p. 183)
>
> /[Tessa lifts out a small framed painting and holds it up.] …/
>
> /McCorquodale:/It was my intention to represent – in a symbolic 
> fashion – the Christian church.
>
> /Tessa: /A bird of prey carrying an olive branch. You’ve put the 
> matter in a nutshell.
>
> (‘Funeral Games’ (1968) by Joe Orton)
> Stuart
> (Day 224)

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