...there's a confluence of > authorial and characgter personae for both authors that has been clear to > me since I studied VW with Mitchell Leaska at NYU... Woolf is another one of my favorite authors and I think you are right on about what make her and JDS similar. They are both just so damn charming. At the end of _Room of One's Own_ I felt haunted by Virginia's ghost. She was with me in ways that writers usually aren't. I could even feel her as I roamed through Bloomsbury and Hyde Park last spring. I feel the same way about Buddy Glass. When I am done reading "Raise High..." I can taste Tom Collins on my lips. Susan