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A day in the life, a lifetime in a day. Woolf’s masterpiece explores memory, post-war London, and the enduring human spirit. 🌸🇬🇧🕰️
Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/12/mrs-dalloway-by-virgina-woolf.html
#TheMurdersInTheRueMorgue by #EdgarAllanPoe
The world's first modern detective story! Join C. Auguste Dupin as he solves an impossible, grisly locked-room mystery in Paris. 🔎🦍🩸
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Andrew ShieldsA “common delusion” in Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925). #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #MrsDalloway #Fiction #Novels #Literature #Psychology #TheGreatWar #DelusionsOfGrandeur https://111-words.ghost.io/a-common-delusion-in-virginia-woolfs-mrs-dalloway-1925/
A “common delusion” in Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925)
In Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925), Septimus Smith, a shell-shocked veteran of The Great War, has a manic phase in which he sees himself as the latest figure in a historical sequence: "Greeks, Romans, Shakespeare, Darwin and now himself". Sir William Bradshaw, a renowned psychologist who examines Septimus, has a
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
"She hated her: she loved her. It was enemies one wanted, not friends – "
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
“It ended in a transcendental theory which, with her horror of death, allowed her to believe, or say that she believed (for all her scepticism), that since our apparitions, the part of us which appears, are so momentary compared with the other, the unseen part of us, which spreads wide, the unseen might survive, be recovered somehow attached to this person or that, or even haunting certain places, after death. Perhaps – perhaps.”
“What she liked was simply life.
‘That’s what I do it for,’ she said, speaking aloud, to life.”
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
“Here he opened Shakespeare once more. That boy’s business of the intoxication of language [..] How Shakespeare loathed humanity [..] This was now revealed [..] the message hidden in the beauty of words. The secret signal which one generation passes, under disguise, to the next is loathing, hatred, despair. Dante the same. Aeschylus (translated) the same.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
“Ah well, so be it. The compensation of growing old [..] was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained – at last! – the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence – the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light...
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
