Re: Notes from the river bottom

And then there's Vonnegut, who writes about middle-class and lower-class
people with loads of class.
tina

>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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