[Vwoolf] Gig Lamps and Orlando....

[Andre Gerard]

Does anyone else see a misty Conrad glowing behind the gig lamps?

"The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which
lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his
propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode
was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought
it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these
misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of
moonshine."


On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 6:26 AM Christine Froula via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
> 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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>> *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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