![]() ![]() So opened Virginia Woolf's famous 1923 novel, which followed Clarissa Dalloway for a day, using the new stream-of-consciousness technique that James Joyce was experimenting with. ![]() The caterer has been busy since dawn, the day is beautiful, and she walks through Hyde Park to buy the flowers herself. Clarissa took neither choice, deciding instead to marry the safe and sound Richard Dalloway, of whom young Peter sniffed, "He's a fool, an unimaginative, dull fool." Now many years have passed. Even more dangerous was Sally, with whom flirtation threatened to develop into something she was unwilling to name. Peter would have been a risk, but he was dangerous, and alive. Dalloway" by almost everybody: "You're not even Clarissa any more." Once she was young and fair, and tempted by two daring choices. The film's heroine muses that she is thought of as "Mrs. Dalloway" is about a day's communion between the woman who exists, and the other woman who might have existed instead. Still inside of us is that other person, who stands forever poised at the head of the path not chosen. We make our choice, and follow it down to the present moment. ![]()
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