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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