the holocaust in TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

[Mark Kohut]

I must look up OED or Webster's Third meanings of the word since I did know
of the above yet
neither seem to apply in To The Lighthouse....(although I will recheck to
see if I missed #2 as the meaning)

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
>>
>>
>> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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