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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