thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning—fresh as if issued to children on a beach.

“At one moment we deplore our birth and state and aspire to an ascetic exaltatio…”

“Clarissa said she would buy the flowers herself.”

“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the s…”

“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it th…”