"Quiet descended on her, calm, content…So on a summer‘s day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying ‘that is all‘ more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach say too, That is all..."
Such lyrical prose.
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"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."?
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Two of my favorite things: #TheBookCorgi and #virginiawoolf.
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"Shredding and slicing, dividing and subdividing, the clocks of Harley Street nibbled at the June day, counselled submission, upheld authority, and pointed out in chorus the supreme advantages of a sense of proportion, until the mound of time was so far diminished that a commercial clock, suspended above a shop in Oxford Street, announced, genially and fraternally...that it was half-past one."
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#mrsdallowayday #readingwomenmonth Do you think on my messy shelves I could find Mrs.D?I hope the Woolfs will do.
Found my copy of Mrs. Dalloway that I used in my college Modernism class. All of the markers represent when time was mentioned. I guess I had to write a paper on that? And between my husband and I, we have 4 copies of this book. Whoops. #readingwomenmonth #mrsdallowayday
"She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day." - #mrsdalloway
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