“Crooked pins” in Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room" (1922) and T. S. Eliot’s “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” (1920)

In Virginia Woolf's novel "Jacob's Room" (1922), a Mrs. Norman first carefully observes a young man in her compartment on a train—and then forgets him at the station: "[...] this sight of her fellow-traveller was completely lost in her mind, as the crooked pin dropped by a child into the