warped and distilled lighthouse?

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Richard Wilso wrote:
a-and i recall the 'time passes' section of 'to the lighthouse' seeming
more
about v.'s (woolf, that is) infatuation with death than "history bereft
of human
experience / artistic expression"... just an opinion... (cough... what
was the
painter character's name.... lily briscoe or something..?)...

anyhow,
--rwilson

Woolf’s To The Lighthouse is divided into three sections. The first and
third are concerned with two days in the life of a family on vacation.
The first day is before WWI and the second day is after the war. Stream
of consciousness technique is used in these two sections as the family
moves freely in time and space. The middle section, called ‘Time Passes”
abruptly chronicles  the non-human, impersonal, historical-the war, the
destruction and decay and death. Someone has described this section as
Genesis in reverse. Lily Briscoe does not represent Woolf’s infatuation
with death but rather the power of Art over history. At the end of the
novel, Lily/Woolf  has finished her painting her Remembrance, and
reconciled the past, the lost, and the dead in her Painting/Novel.