RE: Notes from the river bottom

Her verbose emptiness is an expression of a disjointed view but I am
guessing that you know what reconciles them.
Daniel

"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 don't think that was Woolf's purpose, and I'm recalling something she said
about <i>Mrs. Dalloway: "I adumbrate here a study of insanity and suicide;
the world seen by the sane and the insane side by side." This is the
question, ultimately unanswerable, that terrifies me a little bit in this
discussion: Is Woolf a bore because she's a bore, or because "verbose
emptiness" relects how unbearable is the view of the world "seen by the sane
and the insane side by side?"

luke
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