
There is a pleasure to be had in putting off the classics as soon as you open Bleak House, you foreclose all other possibilities of what it could be, and there sits Mr. Yet I put off To the Lighthouse for a long time, in order to live in delicious anticipation of it.

Dalloway is about some lady, The Waves is about … waves, To the Lighthouse is about going to a lighthouse-turned out to be basically accurate. My premonitory sense of what her novels were about- Mrs. I knew what she looked like and what had happened to her I knew that her books took place inside the human mind and that I had my whole life to enter them. I had met Virginia Woolf before I ever opened her books.

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