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13. To the Lighthouse.
It was necessary now to carry everything a step further. With her foot on the
threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as
she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it
changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one
last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.
Our Water/Ocean cluster begins with Virginia Woolf’s To the
Lighthouse. This curious novel describes two days
(separated by ten dramatic years) in the life of the Ramsay family as they
stay at their holiday home in the Scottish Hebrides with their assorted
friends and hangers-on. But the novel does not concoct a wild plot; instead,
it examines how the characters observe each other’s internal and emotional
states. Chris and Suzanne explore the way Woolf and her characters try to
capture not only the endless flow of time, but also those moments when people
are configured just so and time seems to stand still.
Show Notes.
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse.
[Bookshop. In some countries,
the text and an audiobook are now public
domain.]
Margaret Atwood on reading To the Lighthouse as a teen, and again as an
adult.
Vanessa Bell’s art.
Vanessa Bell’s dust jacket design for the first edition of To the
Lighthouse.
The Hogarth Press.
The Bloomsbury Group.
Next episode: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
[An online edition;
free audiobook at Librivox.]
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon and talk
book with us on a members-only Slack!
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By Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Chris Piuma
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It was necessary now to carry everything a step further. With her foot on the
threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as
she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it
changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one
last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.
Our Water/Ocean cluster begins with Virginia Woolf’s To the
Lighthouse. This curious novel describes two days
(separated by ten dramatic years) in the life of the Ramsay family as they
stay at their holiday home in the Scottish Hebrides with their assorted
friends and hangers-on. But the novel does not concoct a wild plot; instead,
it examines how the characters observe each other’s internal and emotional
states. Chris and Suzanne explore the way Woolf and her characters try to
capture not only the endless flow of time, but also those moments when people
are configured just so and time seems to stand still.
Show Notes.
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse.
[Bookshop. In some countries,
the text and an audiobook are now public
domain.]
Margaret Atwood on reading To the Lighthouse as a teen, and again as an
adult.
Vanessa Bell’s art.
Vanessa Bell’s dust jacket design for the first edition of To the
Lighthouse.
The Hogarth Press.
The Bloomsbury Group.
Next episode: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
[An online edition;
free audiobook at Librivox.]
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon and talk
book with us on a members-only Slack!
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