ENGLISH 45C Lecture 15: 10/17 Mrs. Dalloway #3
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P125: here is one room, here is another. What can religions say abt that or love? . How to explain the fundamental fact that we"re different ppl? as much as novel tries to give access to every brain, irl that"s what we can"t do. Party scene gives a partic way to understand this issue. Straightforward descrips of party - food, jewelry, ppl just talking abt/looking at other ppl intensively activates our visual imagination. P160 - the cold stream of visual impressions failed him now the brain must wake now. The body must contract now, entering the house, the lighted house . Peter"s telling himself he has to do something else at the party besides merely watch; reader"s asked to do the same thing. Contradictory position: reader is given nothing but things to see; but we"re told to do something besides simply see. Some relation to the moment when clarissa somehow sees septimus" death.
