that memorable bit from Woolf about "leaden circles dissolve in air" (a description of Big Ben's ringing in Mrs. Dalloway) always seems to me like a beautiful, poetic rendering of the horrible (the oppressive pressure of Time that so dominates the novel).
"I am grown at length to see into the vanity of the world more than ever I did, and now I condemn myself for nothing so much as playing the dolt in print . . . . There is nothing that if a man list he may not wrest or pervert. I cannot forbid any to think villainously, Sed caveat emptor, let the interpreter beware; for none ever heard me make allegories of an idle text."
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beauty in the midst of pain:
that memorable bit from Woolf about "leaden circles dissolve in air" (a description of Big Ben's ringing in Mrs. Dalloway) always seems to me like a beautiful, poetic rendering of the horrible (the oppressive pressure of Time that so dominates the novel).
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