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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 · 38m
(dear old Peter, for example, thinking her so brilliant)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 1h
(it was a joke of theirs, her swearing)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 2h
(he left his paper on the table and moved off)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 3h
(it was a joke of theirs, her swearing)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 4h
(besides the relationship was not one that he approved)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 5h
(but he would think her sentimental--he used to be so sharp)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 6h
(if people objected)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 7h
(she thought, putting her coat away)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 8h
(it came back to her)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 9h
(scientifically)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 10h
(as she did now quite clearly)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 11h
(how that shocked her--that one's parents should quarrel!)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 12h
(for her servants stayed later, if they asked her)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 13h
(the stream of patients being so incessant, the responsibilities and privileges of his profession so onerous)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 14h
(she was apt to lose things)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 15h
(thinking it was outrageous to be interrupted at eleven o'clock on the morning of the day she was giving a party)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 16h
(Lady Bruton detested illness in the wives of politicians.)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 17h
(besides the relationship was not one that he approved)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 18h
(it was so rough the approach to her God--so tough her desires)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 19h
(she embroidered, knitted, spent four nights out of seven at home with her son)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 20h
(But it was growing late.)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 21h
(thinking it was outrageous to be interrupted at eleven o'clock on the morning of the day she was giving a party)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 22h
(as eyes tend to be)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 23h
(Clarissa must speak to Lady Bruton.)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(for a girl of eighteen as she then was)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(susceptible as he was)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(and really she must go, if Clarissa did not come soon)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(Clarissa had sapped something in him permanently)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(if the patient was obstinate)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(it was a joke of theirs, her swearing)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(she was in the Temple)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(she could not get the thought of her out of her mind that afternoon)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(it was the Prince of Wales for certain)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(for it was Clarissa of course)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(but he would think her sentimental--he used to be so sharp)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(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)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(The coffee was very slow in coming.)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(She drew the knobbed lumps beneath her skirt.)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(she had cried over it in her bedroom)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(as eyes tend to be)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(except perhaps Papa)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(poor goose--one didn't dislike her)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(you know, she said, what such women get like, with too much paint)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(this was a theory he used to make up to account for her, so transparent in some ways, so inscrutable in others)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(it was the Prince of Wales for certain)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(She must remember everything to tell Edith.)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(knowing her as one does know people who live next door to one in Westminster)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(Clarissa saw the car diminishing, disappearing)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(she hardly knew anybody there)
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Mrs Dalloway in Parenthesis @dallowayaside.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(The coffee was very slow in coming.)
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