the holocaust in TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

[kelber at mindspring.com]

It calls to mind The Philadelphia Story (1940 ), where a drunken Jimmy Stewart gushes romantically to Katherine Hepburn that when he looks in her eyes he sees  "... holocausts ...". Always jarring, given when the line was spoken.

Laura 



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Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

>published in 1927, Ms Woolf has a character who thinks
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>dramatically, shall we say, use this word to describe a 
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>major disaster that does not happen regarding her husband
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>and a situation....."not a holocaust" she says to herself.....
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>Where it also does not contain the burning/ burnt offering 
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>major meaning of the word long before the historic Holocaust
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>but is used as Pynchon does in GR, I believe. (along with the 
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>established 'burning' meaning but not directly alluding to the Holocaust, 
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>I also think I remember, without looking anything up. )
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