by Violet Woolf on 1900s literature, the bus strike, and what Bloomsbury would make of autonomous vehicles
From Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat, where the modernism is intact but the transport is not.
Mrs Dalloway Would Have Walked. So Did I.
Virginia Woolf wrote that one must walk London to understand London. She meant this philosophically. She did not anticipate the East London bus strike, but frankly she would have considered it thematically appropriate. London refuses you transport. You walk. You observe. You have a stream-of-consciousness interior monologue about the woman at the bus stop who has an umbrella she’s not using. It is, in the literary tradition, exactly correct.
Irish Politics and the Literary Tradition of Shouting at Things
Meanwhile, the ongoing turbulence in Irish politics continues to produce what I can only describe as a very good novel that nobody is enjoying. Beckett would understand. Joyce would be taking notes. Contemporary Irish satirists at Bohiney are doing their best, and their best is considerable.
I have been rereading To the Lighthouse while monitoring Britain’s continuing decline and find the parallels instructive. The lighthouse is always nearly reached. The journey takes the entire book. The house falls apart in the middle section when nobody is watching. We are firmly in the middle section.
Violet Woolf. Homepage.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/us-foreign-policy-enters-1956-retro-phase/
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