there lurks psychological equivalent of lobotomy

[brendan62442]

- Mrs. Dalloway is a terrific book. It hides the most fantastic secrets in plain sight in people's thoughts. Stream of consciousness means it was a good choice to listen to on tape. I wrote most of the Wikipedia page I just linked.

- Heart of Darkness was better the second time than the first time. Blah blah deep questions of psychology. The

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[soderbergh]

Mrs Dalloway = love, love, love.

you wait and wait and wait for that conversation and it never ever happens.

Perfection.

[soderbergh]

From wikipedia:

"She keeps up with and even embraces the social expectations of the wife of a politician, but she is still able to express herself in the parties she throws."

How is that FEMINISM? That's anti-feminism.

[brendan62442]

It has to do with feminism. It applies to the feminism in the book. Sometimes they make party-throwing sound like art.

[stillbornteen]

-Mrs. Dalloway? Heart of Darkness? The Awakening (of several posts ago)? Are you taking 20th Century Literature? Or is this a compilation of several english courses? Or... neither of the above?

-Mrs. Dalloway is a book that i can appreciate without ever really liking. Stream of consciousness is all kinds of annoying to read. I really liked a lot of the moments with Septimus though.

-I haven't listened to the interviews yet, but isn't that what all (or perhaps most) Showalter/Stella crew comedy is like?

[brendan62442]

I took four lit classes this spring.

Something like Stella gives a really clear vibe. They bring the same suits, gay undertones, giggling on stage, and twist endings to everything they've made. Sandwiches and Cats changed things up every track. He recites poems he wrote in high school, does a hard rock tutorial about sandwiches, screams at the annoying lady in the audience, reads erotic fiction to guitar music. Basically he recorded a Tim and Eric CD.

I'm also really excited if I convinced you to listen to the interviews.

[stillbornteen]

I only asked because my one english department university course had all those books featured in starring roles. I was wondering if my professor craigslist'd reading lists or transferred to U of O.

I like the Stella/State crew enough to keep up with them so you didn't really convince me, so much as you pointed them out. but thank you for that. I'll listen to it whenever my laptop gets back from the shop.

(I assume you've seen The Michael Showalter Showalter?)

[starfish_flower]

I loved The Hours when I read it, so maybe I should read Mrs. Dalloway too. I hear nothing but good things about it.

wow

[brendan62442]

Heart of Darkness review is really bad. I didn't know I could go that bad.

[jandrewm]

I read a lot of Woolf recently-- The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room and Orlando all in a row.

Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse I had already done, years ago in school. I had planned on re-reading them, but other stuff got in the way.

I'd like to get back on track soon, dipping into those two and then proceeding to the last three novels: The Waves, The Years, Between the Acts.

Woolf is deeply brilliant-- and when you work through the books in order, you can see how she developed, tested, revised and perfected her experimental techniques.

[brendan62442]

I think of her sometimes as an effortless talent, someone who could just hit a manic phase and spin gold all day.

I might like it better to know that there was development, work, progress. I like it that Virginia Woolf was not born Virginia Woolf. I like to think that my neighbours could be Virginia Woolf if they practiced hard enough.