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Centennial Presidential Address 1983: Realizing Fictions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Mary Ann Caws
Mary Ann Caws*
Affiliation:
Hunter College and the Graduate School, City University of New York, New York, New York
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The proceedings somehow opened. The talking and laughing and shuffling suddenly subsided … a figure rose; she took her way from among us; she mounted a platform; she spoke for precisely five minutes; she descended. Directly she sat down another rose; mounted the platform; spoke for precisely five minutes and descended; then a third rose; then a fourth—and so it went on, speaker following speaker, one from the right, one from the left, one from the middle, one from the background—each took her way to the stand, said what she had to say, and gave place to her successor. … They were like marksmen, I thought, standing up in turn with rifle raised to aim at a target. Sometimes they missed, and there was a roar of laughter; sometimes they hit, and there was a roar of applause. (Woolf 229)

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PMLA , Volume 99 , Issue 3: Centennial Issue , May 1984 , pp. 312 - 321
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1984

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