<div dir="ltr">As mentioned and as I read her more--To the Lighthouse now, not like the first time decades ago--the theme/trope of epiphanic moments in the everyday is rife. A relevant book thematically has been published about her work called Moments of Being. <div><br></div><div>One might say, through a Pynchon lens that it--epiphanic moment-- is akin to the Word which Oedipa never gets, although she does have all those secular 'revelations" thru the book and it ends with waiting for an answer, of course. One might say that those secular revelations are the answers because the Answer is not forthcoming.</div><div><br></div><div>One can also be reminded of P's 'grace' breakthroughs into a new awareness in places in his works. Lew experiencing his major 'grace' moment, although heightened (in meaning) and shaped carefully in Against the Day. </div><div><br></div><div>The autobiographical elements in Woolf's works are large and were part of her own very conscious </div><div>awareness as she wrote them. To the Lighthouse reworking, thematically reshaping her parents, her sister, some of the family's famous friends.</div><div><br></div><div>So, in a foreword or afterword to one book or another, someone remarks that Woolf in this book and in Mrs. Dalloway, she was 'oedipal', working in fiction to try to understand (mostly) her father, a strong, difficult, famous personage and father. She was thirteen when her mother died. She and her older sister ultimately differed on their father's character, seen fictionalized in To the Lighthouse. </div><div><br></div><div>Which suddenly gave me this 'answer' to the Oedipa Maas ambiguity of meanings: With that novel being (also) asearch for America (in the straightforward lyrics of S & G's song of the 60s...'She's gone to look for America".....might one not see Oedipa's oedipal quest as a quest to understand the Founding Father(s)?? in America of the time? </div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>