[Vwoolf] Gig Lamps and Orlando....

[Mark Hussey]

I think I must have read this somewhere (i.e. not my idea) long ago, that
the 'series' of gig lamps called to mind an image of the gigs lined up,
their lamps lit, perhaps outside a theatre, waiting for customers in the
evening

And not that it is particularly relevant to this image, but Proust also
uses the image of a 'transparent envelope' in *Swann's Way* when talking
about identity.

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 9:04 AM Laura Cernat via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> 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
> 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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> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+cernat.laura=kuleuven.be at lists.osu.edu> on
> behalf of Martin, Ann via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 28, 2024 2:41 PM
> *To:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> *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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