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Do You Even Lit?

Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 1: Skill issue

50 min • 8 april 2024

A fragmented jumble of multiple shifting perspectives, punctuated by abrupt jumps between topics and timelines, infused with the frustration of trying to express intensely-felt experiences within the bounds of mere words.

(oh and we also talked about a Virginia Woolf book)

 

CHAPTERS

  • (00:00:00) - we are NOT going to the lighthouse
  • (00:11:16) - Rich makes the case for persevering
  • (00:14:16) - Cam pleads preference for plain prose
  • (00:17:51) - Ideas that can only be conveyed through fiction
  • (00:25:21) - Synopsis of part 1: The Window
  • (00:27:30) - Autobiographical elements from Woolf's life
  • (00:29:40) - What ideas would a modern Bloomsbury group explore?
  • (00:32:15) - C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures: literature as status game
  • (00:40:40) - Bryan Boyd lens on the importance of stories for advancing knowledge
  • (00:44:33) - exquisite peer pressuring Cam into continuing with the book
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