the holocaust in TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

[Jochen Stremmel]

Given when the line was written (by Donald Ogden Stewart) it's probably the
second meaning:

noun
1 destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or
nuclear war: a nuclear holocaust | the threat of imminent holocaust.
• (the Holocaust) the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime
during the period 1941–45. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as
members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were
murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
2 historical a Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an
altar.

and not so jarring.

2016-12-01 17:31 GMT+01:00 kelber at mindspring.com <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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> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
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> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> published in 1927, Ms Woolf has a character who thinks
> dramatically, shall we say, use this word to describe a
> major disaster that does not happen regarding her husband
> and a situation....."not a holocaust" she says to herself.....
>
> Where it also does not contain the burning/ burnt offering
> major meaning of the word long before the historic Holocaust
> but is used as Pynchon does in GR, I believe. (along with the
> established 'burning' meaning but not directly alluding to the Holocaust,
> I also think I remember, without looking anything up. )
>
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