Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, part 3: We finally get to the fucking lighthouse

An anticlimactic final discussion to an anticlimactic book. We are confused and afraid. Cam is on the brink of quitting reading altogether.

This discussion covers Parts 2 and 3 of To The Lighthouse. Actual book-related content starts at 11 minutes.

CHAPTERS

• (00:00:00) Normative ethics and incest cold open
• (00:11:00) Infectiousness of social energy
• (00:15:16) The Chad Carmichael vs the Virgin Tansley
• (00:22:16) Entropy and the passage of time
• (00:26:21) Lily Briscoe as Virginia Woolf
• (00:33:00) sidebar on which book to read next
• (00:34:32) On finally getting to the lighthouse
• (00:42:22) What's the significance of Lily's painting?
• (00:43:48) Final thoughts on why this book gave us trouble