Sunny Days -- "It Is Here" -- Again -- June 26, 2023

Locator: 45066WTI. 

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The Book Page

Today's book to start:

• The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature, Bill Goldstein, c. 2017, 823GOL. 
• In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, Fiona Sampson, c. 2018. It's irritating to me to call an 18-year-old woman a "girl," especially one who wrote in the early 1800s.
  
• Notes here.
  

From the introduction:

• Willa Cather
• her 1936 book of essays, Not Under Forty 
• she made the melancholy remark at the beginning of the book: "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts."

• Cather was thinking of:
• Ulysses, February, 1922
• The Waste Land, October, 1922

All at once these two books seemed to herald a new modernist era in which the form of story telling (that) she (Cather)  prized, and had excelled at, was no longer of signal importance. 

Comments: This is incredibly important and incredibly interesting for me. Years ago I put together my "history" of literature which I use to discuss literature with the grandchildren. In my "diary" it is Chapter 24 and runs to 43 pages. I occasionally add to it but most additions are now elsewhere. I wanted the "chapter" to show what my thoughts were when I first wrote it back in 2006 or thereabouts.

If the author chooses 1922 as the year the world (literature) broke, then the author needs to pick the year Romanticism began: 1749, with Rosseau’s essay. That period ended with the death of Goethe. But I digress.

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101 Days Of Summer -- Day 30

Going biking.

Wow, these days are gorgeous.

I'm going biking. I'll bike five miles to the library. 

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American Grammar

The never-ending argument: It's her or it's she?

Link here.

Perhaps, the best response, the one I like best:  

For another controversy, see who vs whom. Link here, usage.