Good morning

Book 13 - Sue Roe & Susan Sellers "The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf "

Sue Roe (Editor), Susan Sellers (Editor) "The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf" (Cambridge University Press)






If you need a critical opinion on Virginia Woolf, buy this book. I was originally apprehensive because I have only read a few of her novels and her essay "A Room Of One's Own". Nevertheless, there's plenty of opinions to draw from, and the critics inside are not always coming from a Modernist / Feminist angle. There's some nice subtle criticism of Woolf's snobbery and the general superiority complex that can be drawn on for counter-arguments.

Of course, not everyone buys books like this for academic purposes. The essays don't require any particular expertise in the language (like for example some of the material written on structuralists, deconstructionism, utilitarianism etc...). The essays were most useful in forcing me to view Woolf's essays and fiction critically. It's very easy to agree with some of the points made in her fiction without stepping back and asking "who is she to disregard a whole generation of literature?". This book was first published in 2000 and is now in a second updated edition. It is a pity it was not around when I did my Humanities courses with the Open University late '70s.

Damn Rain !!

UGH! This damn wet weather! Looks like I will have to move some jobs around and just do Canterbury today for a supermarket cafe vist (after 3 pm) followed by a pub visit in the city.

As well as that I will be meeting Phil later on at the Leading Light here in Faversham so I know I will get a lift home tonight.

I was going to go to Dover and Ramsgate but these will move now to next week.

Meanwhile listening to some Parisian cafe music -

Rabih Abou-Khalil

Some music for you jazz-folk -

Rabih Abou-Khalil - Maltese Chicken Farm

Recorded on 22-30 July 2000 at the WDR Studio, Köln, Germany.

Rabih Abou-Khalil - oud
Eddie Allen - trumpet
Dave Ballou - trumpet
Gabriele Mirabassi - clarinet
Antonio Hart - alto saxophone
Ellery Eskelin - tenor saxophone
Tom Varner - French horn
Dave Bargeron - euphonium
Michel Godard - tuba
Vincent Courtois - cello
Jarrod Cagwin - drums
Nabil Khaiat - frame drum


The Lewinsky March

In The Pub

Just about to have my third pint before we go home. Phil and I are currently in the Leading Light pub in Faversham and a good chat and conviviality with stonking good beers. I'll post to you lot later.