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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 · 48m

(All the same, he is in love, thought Clarissa.)

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

(which she had done in the war)

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

(who is about his own age)

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

(though he was genuinely devoted to her)

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

(he was almost too well dressed always, but presumably had to be, with his little job at Court)

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

(for her servants stayed later, if they asked her)

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

(only of course for an hour or so)

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

(how that shocked her--that one's parents should quarrel!)

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

(and really she must go, if Clarissa did not come soon)

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

(for she was with him)

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

(She drew the knobbed lumps beneath her skirt.)

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

(up and down, up and down)

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

(she was fond of such metaphors)

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

(he put his hat on again)

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

(She drew the knobbed lumps beneath her skirt.)

Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 16h

(looking at the pompous houses overlooking the Park)

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

(one of those Tuesday mornings when the lesson was over)

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

(After all these years he really could not call her "Lady Rosseter.")

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

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

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

(indeed she felt it now)

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

(Rezia liked ices, chocolates, sweet things)

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

(she was a Radical then)

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

(for one must be scientific, above all scientific)

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

to see her sons at Eton, where they had the mumps)

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

(and she felt that Peter was an old friend, a real friend-- did absence matter? did distance matter? She had often wanted to write to him, but torn it up, yet felt he understood, for people understand without things being said, as one realises growing old, and old she was, had been that afternoon