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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 · 2m

(Sally should not have said that--she went too far)

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

(they wouldn't bring the body in here, would they?)

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

(Liverpool, for example)

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

(as she dozed there)

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

(but one must economise, not buy things rashly for Elizabeth)

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

(broad and simple--why could not every one be broad and simple? she asked)

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

(she was a Radical then)

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

(the Warren Smiths they were called)

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

(only of course for an hour or so)

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

(and I'm staying in Victoria Street, practically next door)

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

(something floating, white, crimson)

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

(In those days, in mixed company, it was a bold thing to say.)

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

(Rezia who had only seen him once called him "a quiet man," a sturdy red-haired man, undemonstrative in the company of women)

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

(there was the river)

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

(a most extraordinary looking old man)

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

(in grey and silver, balancing like a sea-lion at the edge of its tank, barking for invitations, Duchesses, the typical successful man's wife)

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

(Clarissa must speak to Lady Bruton.)

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

(who wore red socks, his black being at the laundry)

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

(one must be scientific above all, scientific)

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

(not to Hugh, or Richard, or even to devoted Miss Brush)

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

(if people objected)

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

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

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

(Huxley again)

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

(Richard would say, What nonsense!)

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

(That's an old man playing a penny whistle by the public-house, he muttered)