Rereading Mrs. Dalloway at the Same Age as Mrs. Dalloway


"Recently, I began rereading Mrs. Dalloway for what was easily the eighth or tenth time. It might just be my favorite novel, the one on that changing list of Books-I-Proselytize-About which stays there, not that it needs my proselytizing. I had not read it in several years, so I opened it with a deep pleasure, an anticipation of how lost I would become in it, how enveloped by the sensations and the emotions and the sentences themselves. But when I reached the passage above, early in the book, I saw that something had changed. I was now Clarissa’s age exactly. ..."
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