[Vwoolf] Gig Lamps and Orlando....

[Christine Froula]

I think that may be the opera scene in Jacob's Room.

On 8/28/2024 9:18 AM, Mark Hussey via Vwoolf wrote:
> 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
> 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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>     of Martin, Ann via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, August 28, 2024 2:41 PM
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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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