warped and distilled lighthouse?

[RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com]

>> 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"... 

> 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.

sure... i wasn't completely oblivious to the symbolism; but the gloomy 
undertones i felt i could sense in the writing made it impossible for me to 
enjoy reading it (and at the time, i hadn't known of v. woolf's personal 
fate). 

and perhaps i'm still subconciously pissed off about a disappointing grade 
i was given long ago by a mean-hearted lesbian-type for a splendidly 
written paper on 'mrs. dalloway' to which i sacrificed two nights of sleep 
(ahhh - the good old days). and then there was that whole snotty bloomsbury 
thing. thus am i afraid of virginia woolf...

anyway, soorry if i was being stooopid...
--rwilso

"perhaps my brains have turned to sand" -- eno
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