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