Re: Notes from the river bottom

I think that fits for a lot of modern lit from Woolf's time, but it
doesn't fit all of it. I don't see it as much in Joyce, for example,
but I do see it in Djuna Barnes and Woolf at least sometimes. I think
it's a class thing. What you describe, I suspect, is the affect of
pseudo-aristocracy. Remember Woolf thought the middle class woman was
boring _in relationship to people like her_. I don't think she found
Mrs. Dalloway boring.

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

>Isn't that the purpose of modern lit, to display a cross section of the
>empty body (machina sin anima)? Wouldn't you say Woolf's work really
>illustrates 20th century verbose emptiness? I mean, those fleeing
>tediousness or boredom are fleeing the inescapable, no matter where they go
>they take the bore with them. It seems very characteristic of the modern
>lost generation. The undead despising the un-undead. I still keep her on
>my shelf handy to exercise the 'punk' out of me, a little hair of the dog.
>Daniel
>
>

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