Misc. re Pynchon and V. Woolf

[Mark Kohut]

As mentioned a bit ago, there is at least one scene in *Mrs. Dalloway* that
is likely inspiration for a scene in Lt 49.....About a moment of secular
"revelation"..
which in Lot 49, of course, is wanted but withheld.

Do we all remember that paragraph in GR, just mentioned in the Group Read,
in which a young woman--not a girl--is described as looking about seven she
was so youthful-looking?

Ms. Woolf has a young woman described exactly the same in *The Voyage Out.*

Remember the color yellow in a late section of *Against the Day*, around
the time of Ms Woolf's early writing in AtD's fictional time, in which we
all found resonances in
that Group Read, --from Beardsley to- I don't remember what?

Well, from/in the first chapter of *The Voyage Out* Woolf has the color
yellow as atmospheric symbolic form and repeats it willfully in a later
section. It carries a meaning akin to the AtD meanings as I remember
them---not looking anything up--sickly, unclear, atmospherically damaged,
etc...

One reason I asked for judgments (or textual evidence) of about when the
Chums flew off into
grace was because in 1927 there was a total eclipse of the sun visible in
most of England. an event so anticipated and written about in England that
at least one company, a lager maker, capitalized with ads. (Wish I could
scan but imagine a simple shining sun, with rays sorta like feathers, being
half-hidden by an equal size dark moon with the caption "Barclay's, light
or dark"?) ....

about the upcoming event, with stories about a week-long series of
entertainments this was written prominently in one English paper: In
London, "there was the Crystal Palace with room on its terraces for
thousands of people." In P's fictional oeuvre, I have always figured that
he made pretty clear that
the Chums flew off in historic time that next was dealt with by the
historic time of GR. That fall of a Crystal Palace beginning of WW2.

A--and, there is more than one book on V. (another resonance to Pynchon's
V.?) Woolf and science.
the science in her work as metaphors, as influences: her reading and
understanding of it. Pynchon woudda especially liked that, I suggest--even
over other must-read writers of her time like Proust and Lawrence, etc.---
among lots of other reasons to like her work.
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