Talk:The Waves

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Someone really needs to edit this page, the language is really convoluted! I started but it got too tedious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.158.13.101 (talk) 00:52, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, it's embarrassing that there's practically no article on The Waves. I'll have a go at writing something, but we really need an academic researcher or someone with an equivalent knowledge of the text. Should this not be given “Top” importance? Percival500 (talk) 20:33, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Is it a Stream of consciousness writing or not? --Taranet (talk) 22:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• Not really. See Hermione Lee's chapter "The Waves" in The Novels of Virginia Woolf, Methuen & Co., 1977, reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Virginia Woolf, ed. Harold Bloom, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986., pp. 103-104: "If we set a passage from The Waves against some excerpts from twentieth-century novels which might be, and have been, described by the term "stream of consciousness," the effect is one of dissimilarity." She goes on briefly to compare The Waves with three other stream of consciousness novels and concludes that The Waves is too different stylistically to be considered such. 217.224.134.174 (talk) 11:57, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Why is this in the category 'Books which are set within one day'? 163.1.162.20 (talk) 20:11, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

No more appropriate than for the Book of Genesis. Thincat (talk) 20:01, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

I deleted the line about the book being reminiscent of Joyce's Portrait of The Artist. Joyce's book is told almost entirely in the third person. They're fairly dissimilar, the more I think about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.21.106.137 (talk) 02:03, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Errol Morris tweeted fascination with one line from The Waves

Bet there's a story here but I don't know it:

- https:// twitter.com/ errolmorris/status/137111672832786432 errolmorrisVerified account ‏@errolmorris

And I keep thinking of this phrase from The Waves, "netting a fin in a waste of water." 2:15 AM - 17 Nov 2011

As reported in Dana Stevens' interview of Morris about The Unknown Known at Slate:

- http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2014/04/donald_rumsfeld_documentary_talking_to_errol_morris_about_the_unknown_known.html

For The Unknown Known, Morris is at pains to distinguish his project in interviewing Rumsfeld from that of speaking with McNamara in The Fog of War. “People want this to be Fog of War II, and it’s never going to be. These two people are not alike,” he said. “People waiting for some David Frost or Mike Wallace moment miss the point. There is no redemption in any of this. A man I happen to like, a man I like less—both these men have done horrible things.” He mentioned a phrase from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves that’s long obsessed him—“netting a fin in a waste of water”—and went on, “I think the movie does that.”

(So Donald Rumsfeld is a slippery fin in wastewater of his own making? My mind goes to this scene from the movie: http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/ljD9-4sneyXx.jpg +shark)

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