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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis

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A Blue Bot producing the elements of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway that the novel places in parenthesis. Assisted by @bluebotsdonequick.com.

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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 20m

(she had been quite taken aback by this visit--it had upset her)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 1h

(Peter Walsh and his affairs)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 2h

(he told Mrs. Filmer)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 3h

(a very bad poet)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 4h

(but not the pang)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 5h

(so he thinks as he advances down the forest ride)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 6h

(Richard would say, What nonsense!)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 7h

(Holmes was a powerfully built man)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 8h

(where, she could not be certain)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 9h

(he was talking to himself again--it was awful, awful!)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 10h

(but he would think her sentimental--he used to be so sharp)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 11h

(this morning, for instance, in came Elizabeth, like a long-legged colt, handsome, dumb, just as he was beginning to talk to Clarissa)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 12h

(she hardly knew anybody there)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 13h

(to do Richard justice he would have been happier farming in Norfolk)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 14h

(Of course Aunt Helena thought it wicked to treat flowers like that.)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 15h

(and nobody could be expected to understand)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 17h

(old Miss Parry huddled up in her shawl, did not care what the Prime Minister had just been telling her)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 18h

(his Daisy)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 19h

(translated)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 20h

(dear old Peter, for example, thinking her so brilliant)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 20h

(she found it impossible to write a letter to the Times)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 21h

(and he worked as hard as any man in London)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 22h

(Nobody ever made her laugh as Septimus did.)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 23h

(it came back to her)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 1d

(she was apt to lose things)