[Vwoolf] "Virginia Woolf, sports icon"?⚽?

[Christine Froula]

Wonderful, Marie-Claire, thank you! why should The Waves not be a soccer 
star's bible, as it is for so many people across so many paths of life?

Christine

On 11/21/2024 9:02 AM, Marie Claire Boisset via Vwoolf wrote:
> Dear all: Surprised, not to say "dumbfounded", to read this title 
> found on the first page of the TLS in the mail (Nov. 8, 2024!): 
> "Keeping score: A professional footballer's literary debt to Virginia 
> Woolf" (p. 26). Indeed
> Dear all:
>
> Surprised, not to say "dumbfounded", to read this title found on the 
> first page of the /TLS/ in the mail (Nov. 8, 2024!):  "Keeping score: 
> A professional footballer's literary debt to Virginia Woolf" (p. 26).
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> Indeed a (very) loose, disconnected connection: the author of /The 
> Striker and the Clock: /
> /A beautiful game /(Bloomsbury, London, July 2024), Georgia Cloepfil 
> (as commented upon by Devoney Looser), has /The Waves/ (1931) as a 
> "literary touchstone" & one of her top 5 favorite novels in her sport 
> memoir, /Percival/ being the "striker".
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> Hope this might help bring a smile with your cup of tea or coffee.
> And hope you are enjoying the festive build-up season - no matter what.
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> Thank you. 😊🌞
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> Kind regards,
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> Marie-Claire Boisset-Pestourie
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