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Work #996 · Last

Between the Acts

Virginia Woolf
1940-41 (Hogarth, posthumous July 1941; Woolf died March 28, 1941) · English
Novel · Twentieth-century English modernist literature

A village pageant on a June day in 1939 — England's historical-cultural reckoning at the brink of the Second World War

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Attribute Between the Acts (Last)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Between the Acts

Single June 1939 day; long historical time the pageant recapitulates.

Space

Between the Acts

Pointz Hall and grounds, the village, broader England.

Matter

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Embodied villagers and gentry; costumes, props, material life of pageant.

Observer

Between the Acts

Multiple consciousnesses; Miss La Trobe as artist-organiser.

Energy

Between the Acts

Energies of pageant performance; broader energies of England at the brink of war.

Information

Between the Acts

Discrete pageant content; slowly accumulating personal-relational information.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Between the Acts

Posthumous publication three months after Woolf's suicide affected reception; readers sometimes treat it as final testament rather than the experimental novel it is.