Slow Learner-relevant

[Mark Kohut]

Thanks to Michael focusing on TRP's words
about works having an attitude to death--or not,
Something in the most recent NYR of Books struck me.

Remember Edward Mendelsohn, Scholar of Literature, Teacher, writer
who edited a book of essays on TRP? and written more?

Who also thinks Virginia Woolf a great modernist writer and has written on
her
(and maybe done a book or two, I'm not looking anything up, Chatbot).

[misc. I read more Woolf because of him esp stuff that might have
influenced
TRP a little, even thinking I had found a sampling or two of TRPs]

Anyway, in a letter to the NYR of Books about a review of another book on
*Ulysses/*Joyce
he takes issue with a guy's comments on dead people in Ulysses. He says
they all die naturally
--but one, older in time who goes via suicide-- and says no one in* Ulysses* is
actually presented
as aware of---having "an attitude toward"?--death, their own.

He contrasts that with Septimus in* Mrs. Dalloway* and Woolf's real
embodiment of such an attitude
which everyone feels, has to feel....