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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 · 13m

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

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

(if people objected)

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

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

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

(Huxley again)

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

(Richard would say, What nonsense!)

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

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

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

(those general practitioners! thought Sir William. It took half his time to undo their blunders. Some were irreparable)

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

(his Daisy)

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

(except perhaps Papa)

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

(the grass of the park flushed and faded, lighting up the poor mothers of Westminster and their crawling babies, as if a yellow lamp were moved beneath)

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

(her favourite reading as a girl was Huxley and Tyndall, and they were fond of these nautical metaphors)

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

(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 · 13h

(she had cried over it in her bedroom)

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

(Sir John had laid down the law for years and liked a well-dressed woman)

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

(and nobody could be expected to understand)

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

(you know, she said, what such women get like, with too much paint)

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

(it was a joke of theirs, her swearing)

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

(translated)

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

(but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza)

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

(She must remember everything to tell Edith.)

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

(she wrote reams of poetry in those days)

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

(Nobody ever made her laugh as Septimus did.)

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

(since his wife had thrown away her wedding ring; since she had left him)

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

(for he had had his fling)