How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
It was tempting, after all this reading, to see what London was doing on the morning of the twenty-sixth of October, 1928. And what was London doing? Nobody, it seemed was reading Antony and Cleopatra. (6.1)
Nope. Everyone in London was too preoccupied with Titus Andronicus... London is too busy to be thinking about the things that Woolf is interested in. But Woolf doesn't seem to mind. Why not? Because people are just going to be people?
Quote #8
The fascination of the London street is that no two people are ever alike [...] there were the business-like [...] there were the drifters. (6.1)
Nearly every time Mary sees the London street, she lists all of the different things she sees. It's fun to read these lists, because we're reminded of all of the possible stories out there. The world really opens up when you start thinking that even women and street-sweepers have stories to tell.
Quote #9
At this moment, as so often happens in London, there was a complete lull and suspension of traffic [...] A single leaf detached itself from the plane tree [...] Somehow it was like a signal falling, a signal pointing to a force in things which one had overlooked. (6.2)
It's funny that Mary's vision happens in London, since you'd think that there would be more quiet moments and leaves falling in the countryside. Why doesn't Mary have her vision there? Does she need all the business to make her appreciate the quiet?