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Paperback Paradise
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Librarian, literature geek, knitter, opera fan, book history person. Researching commonplace books and poetry readers. Opinions here are my own. She/her/hers. 🏳️🌈
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Paperback Paradise
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Amanda Watson
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This is such a good question. I don’t know the answer but I can definitely activate librarian mode to find out!
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Amanda Watson
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Septimus’s thoughts here echo Clarissa’s earlier impression of the world “swollen with…some pressure of rapture, which split its thin skin and gushed and poured with an extraordinary alleviation over the cracks and sores.” 💐
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Amanda Watson
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The younger versions of them are all so dramatic, none more so than Peter!
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Amanda Watson
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Amanda Watson
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I'm on sabbatical but made the mistake of opening my work email to a message* so rude I'm tempted to reply "What a strange way to speak to a colleague. I hope you're feeling all right!" *not from any of you or anyone in my own organization! Most people who email me are great. Just not this person.
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Sarah Werner
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In advance of the Queer Bibliography conference later this month, we’ve made @sarahpyke.bsky.social & @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social’s PBSA article free to access through Sept 8. Read and enjoy!!
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Amanda Watson
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There's actually another passage coming up (we'll get to it this weekend) that I find even more confusing, and I'm curious to see what you'll all make of it. This part, for me, is more like we're floating around in the ether as Peter nods off. I love the giant tree figure. So ghostly!
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Amanda Watson
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Personally I'm getting almost a "collective unconscious" vibe from it? Peter's dream is anyone's and everyone's dream, it doesn't belong just to him, and it's full of fairy-tale imagery -- giants, sirens, water nymphs. (Disclaimer: I am not a Jungian)
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Amanda Watson
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I've been on the receiving end of that "look at me, I'm so UNCONVENTIONAL and FREETHINKING compared to you" move Peter likes to make, and I remember how it stung, but also made me want to prove the other person wrong. So I can sort of see why she's still in that dynamic with him.
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Amanda Watson
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Woolf vs. Melville: SEMICOLON THUNDERDOME
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Amanda Watson
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I think you're exactly right that he's trying to convince himself. The way he keeps thinking about how he doesn't like the way she said "Here's my Elizabeth!" He runs through every possible justification.
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Amanda Watson
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I just came across this passage from one of Woolf's letters: "Style is a very simple matter: it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words... this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words."
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Amanda Watson
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I feel like I'd know her prose by the the semicolons alone!
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Amanda Watson
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For anyone in the #MrsD crew who finds Peter Walsh's dream on the park bench bewildering, you're not alone: Merve Emre's annotations describe this passage as "the most beautiful and inscrutable narrative interruption in Mrs. Dalloway." She also says that Woolf thought of it like poetry.
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Marisa Kabas
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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.
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Amanda Watson
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Just filled out the form! thank you for doing this!
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Micah
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folks, watch Leverage because it’s great and because it features one of the few truly aspirational fantasies we have left: watching rich assholes get their comeuppance
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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This is amazing and is a serious way to start to fight back the fascist menace we as Americans face. This is just amazing and I cannot say enough good things about this kind of thing. We need more of this in other areas let’s crowd source a pro democracy movement response before the election.
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Amanda Watson
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At least Clarissa’s fantasy about being married to him was over in about 5 seconds and didn’t involve either knives or being a creepy stalker.
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Amanda Watson
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Amanda Watson
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Amanda Watson
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True! I wonder how much of that is gendered and how much has to do with the aftereffects of Clarissa's illness. The narrator mentions her hair going mostly white after her bout with the flu. Probably it's both.
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Amanda Watson
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Not yet, but now it's going on my TBR list!
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Amanda Watson
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The difference is that you can step back and see the larger design of a quilt all at once. Not so much with a novel, especially this one.
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Amanda Watson
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A metaphor that came to me today: this novel is an enormous quilt, whose pieces are fragments of characters' consciousness, with shared events (like the airplane) piercing through them like a needle & fastening them together. (I'm not actually a quilter, though, so that metaphor may be all wrong!)
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Amanda Watson
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I find myself relating a lot to the way Peter and Clarissa each have a moment of thinking “I’m only just past 50, I’m not old!”, but also each notice how much the other has aged. 💐
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Amanda Watson
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Salty licorice cats! 😻
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Amanda Watson
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The way Mrs. Dalloway is structured around time stamps -- all those tolling bells and events perceived by lots of people simultaneously -- reminds me in a weird way of Christian Marclay's video installation The Clock. (I saw about 4 hours of it at MoMA once; still hope to see more of it someday.) 💐
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Amanda Watson
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She 100% made the right call in not marrying him. He just seems like he'd be exhausting to live with.
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Amanda Watson
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The recurring wave imagery keeps standing out to me. That and the way Woolf's repetitions seem to mimic a wave's movement: "like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave," or here, "waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall." I haven't yet read Woolf's The Waves, but it's on my list. 💐
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Amanda Watson
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I haven't attended an ALA since the Before Times. This is definitely not encouraging me to go back any time soon.
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Amanda Watson
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Congratulations!!!
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Amanda Watson
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And yes, ALA is way too expensive and they SHOULD issue refunds for last-minute cancellations due to illness. But still! We live in a SOCIETY!
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Amanda Watson
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...not to mention any number of other relatives, people on the Amtrak train, Lyft drivers, subway passengers, everyone I came in contact with. Bailing on a conference would be *so much less* of a sacrifice than bailing on holidays with family, but some people can't even do that.
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Amanda Watson
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This whole thing with the librarian who went to ALA while Covid-positive is just enraging. I had to cancel my holiday plans this winter because of Covid. Worst Xmas ever, but the ONE consolation was that I found out before I could travel and infect my elderly mom & immunocompromised cousin... +
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Mike Brown
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Sitting at my desk working and hear a big splash in the pool and I know who it is! I hope he wasn't too freaked out by all of the fireworks last night, poor big buddy.
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Amanda Watson
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Amanda Watson
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omg!
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)
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I wasn't going to ALA anyway, but I'm especially glad I didn't after seeing pictures with almost no one masking. I'm constantly being reminded by my fellow librarians just how little care most of my field has for disabled coworkers. Y'all just do not fucking give a shit about us.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)
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Welp, the "I caught covid at ALA" posts are rolling in. As well as at least NWL librarian who attended an award knowing she had covid.
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Amanda Watson
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Every time I read this passage about Clarissa’s memories of Sally Seton, it reminds me of Sally’s counterpart in my own life. The line “She could not even get an echo of her old emotion” only gets more poignant as I approach Clarissa’s age.
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Amanda Watson
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Mrs. Dalloway day 5: in which we meet another recurring character, Clarissa’s repressed lesbianism. 💐
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Amanda Watson
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Something really interesting (and terribly sad) in the way Rezia experiences her loneliness as a dissolution of the boundaries of the self. The opposite of how Clarissa feels herself connected to everyone and everything, but still related to it. 💐
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Amanda Watson
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Found it -- it's in her memoir "Old Bloomsbury," where she recalls lying in bed "thinking that the birds were singing Greek choruses."
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Amanda Watson
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Her isolation and homesickness are so stark, and you can feel her exhaustion from being Septimus's caregiver. She loves him, but she's in an impossible situation.
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Amanda Watson
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I'm pretty sure Septimus's hallucination of the birds singing in Greek is drawn directly from Woolf's own experience of mental illness. I'll see if I can find where I read that...
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Judith Butlerian Jihad
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every time i read the news in 2024
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Amanda Watson
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I’m seeing the novel’s post-WWI setting in the way everyone reacts to the backfiring car and the suddenly appearing airplane (before it starts skywriting its toffee ad). And then we go right into Septimus’s POV. #MrsD
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