Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Voyage Out (2) by Virginia Woolf

The great darkness had the usual effect of taking away all desire for communication by making their words sound thin and small;...

She did not like to feel herself the victim of unclassified emotions,...

...but why was it so painful being in love, why was there so much pain in happiness?

...and there were soft crescents and diamonds of sunshine upon the plates and the tablecloth.

The afternoon was very hot, so hot that the breaking of the waves on the shore sounded like the repeated sigh of some exhausted creature,...

...dusk was saluted as usual at the hotel by an instantaneous sparkle of electric lights.

"...it doesn't much matter in the long run what one does; people always go their own way--nothing will ever influence them."

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