Pynchon hearts Woolf. Against the Day.

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Ahh an excellent suggestion. My reading of The Years preceded my reading of any Pynchon by, well, many years. I shall revisit it. I did love Woolf.

Thanks Mark

Emma 

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> On 4 Apr 2019, at 10:16, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I haven't (yet) read Woolf's The Years. I did read and reread others of
> hers and posted some
> circumstantial possible "connections' w Pynchon or Kute Korrespondences at
> least but a friend
> who is reading The Years sent out the 'great balloons' line, which comes
> from the Cambridge Introduction
> as you can see...
> 
> "A series of great balloons"......or great balloon trips, of course, ala
> ATD........"Historical snapshots", fer sure.......
> Looks like I have to move The Years up, up and closer in the reading
> timeline of my exhaling life....
> 
> The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf - The Eye
> https://the-eye.eu/.../0521838835.Cambridge.University.Press.The.Cambridge.Introducti...
> <https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=13&ved=2ahUKEwiWsu6Q-bHhAhUlrVkKHcShB5kQFjAMegQIBBAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-eye.eu%2Fpublic%2FWorldTracker.org%2FCollege%2520Books%2FCambridge%2520University%2520Press%2F0521838835.Cambridge.University.Press.The.Cambridge.Introduction.to.Virginia.Woolf.Sep.2006.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1_qy6qR20Qo6MZ-uIuSUMK>
> a series of great balloons, linked by straight narrow passages of narrative'.
> (D4 142). The sequence of historical snapshots, or 'balloons', is certainly
> uneven, ...
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