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Literature of the 1920s: Writers Among the Ruins
We might wish to quarrel with the halo or with the envelope metaphors, but in our
own times we are likely to concur with the initial dismissal of gig—lamps, all the
more enthusiastically for not knowing what on earth a gig—lamp might be.
2
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
[GIG-LAMPS n. (1); the locus classicus was its use as the bespectacled Rudyard
Kipling's schoolboy nickname and used as such for his fictional alter ego, 'Beetle',
in Stalky It Co. (1899)] gigger out! excl. [2000s] (US prison) a shout of warning.
3
The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English
... no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style,
and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it.
Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, ...
She goes on to state in an often-repeated sentence: 'Life is not a series of gig
lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent
envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.' In her
most ...
5
Ambiguous Discourse: Feminist Narratology and British Women ...
Woolf 's much-cited image of the "gig lamps symmetrically arranged" implies a
realist literary convention that demands order, clarity, unity; in contrast, her
modernism, like Joyce's, is intended to depict a more authentic form of
consciousness, ...
The clerk was rather a dull- lookin' sort o' chap, with gig-lamps, an' he just
nodded his head. " ' Quite a awful shock,' I says. ' Why, I brought 'ome a parrot for '
im ! A lovely parrot — talks like a — like a angel an' whistles any toon you like. I
come ...
7
The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman
"And I may get my — yes, my spectacles broken; and then — " "And then, Gig-
lamps," said Mr. Bouncer, "why, and then you shall be presented with another
pair as a testimonial of affection from yours truly. Come, Gig-lamps, don't do the
mean ...
8
The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green: And Oxford Freshman
So, though I tick for nearly every thing — for men at College, Gig-lamps, go upon
tick as naturally as the crows do on the sheep's backs, — I sometimes am rather
hard up for ready dibs ; and then I give the Mum a gentlemanly hint of this, and ...
9
Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace
Woolf's failure”inthis line, wherehe believes that instead of seeing life as “a
luminous halo”we should make “a row of gig lamps” out of “a deluge of iridescent
impressions.”For Collins this “row of gig lamps” isa metaphorofwhat he and
otherNew ...
10
The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of ...
... in causal sequence with a mode of representation that she regards as closer to
the configurations of reality.14 The enterprise is strikingly similar to Virginia
Woolf's famous formulation: "Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically
arranged; ...
