[Vwoolf] Gig Lamps and Orlando....

[Laura Cernat]

Dear Ann,

Thank you for this rich parallel. I think you dotted the "i" here, since Woolf was so interested in looking not just at the "moments of being" (when life is in the spotlight, so to say) but also at the "cotton wool" that surrounds them and in understanding how they are embedded and how they emerge from his "non-being". To me the "semi-transparent envelope" reads sometimes like a prefiguration of the "cotton wool" and the "gig lamps" read somewhat like the moments of being - or, moreover, like moments of awareness, which Woolf emphasizes as asymmetrical and unpredictable, hard to sum up or fit into a series.

There are indeed so many echoes between these images, and yet each also stands alone with such uniqueness and force.

A great new semester to all of you,

Laura
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Subject: [Vwoolf] Gig Lamps and Orlando....

With regard to Laura's reading, I'm wondering how the lights and lamps in "Modern Fiction" relate to that scene in _Orlando_ in which Orlando and Pope are in the carriage: "Lamp-posts list with oil-lamps occurred every two hundred
With regard to Laura's reading, I'm wondering how the lights and lamps in "Modern Fiction" relate to that scene in _Orlando_ in which Orlando and Pope are in the carriage:

"Lamp-posts list with oil-lamps occurred every two hundred yards or so, but between lay a considerable stretch of pitch darkness. Thus for ten minutes Orlando and Mr Pope would be in blackness; and then for about half a minute again in the light. A very strange state of mind was thus bred in Orlando."

It associates with the final drive out of the city, but here the lamp posts and lamp lights suggest a symmetrical, linear movement of time and space, but here it's...variegated (and resonates for me with "Evening Over Sussex").

The clusters of images that arise in Woolf's work....

All best,
Ann





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