"For one must be scientific,
above all scientific"
Anotações:
IRONY that he is the one trying to look at this logically, whereas the medical profession brush it aside
"brown shoes and a shabby overcoat,
with hazel eyes which had that look of
apprehension in them which makes
complete strangers apprehensive too"
"The world has raised its whip;
where will it descend?"
"Was he not being looked at and pointed at"
"Tears ran down his cheeks"
"No one kills from hatred"
Lucrezia
"to love makes
one solitary"
Mental illness and
medical context
"But failure one conceals"
Peter's failure
"There was nothing
whatever the matter with
him"
Doctors "know absolutely nothing"
Anotações:
Virginia's life conclusion
"a little out of sorts"
Comparison with Evelyn
Anotações:
"Evelyn was a good deal out of sorts"
"she could tell nobody"
"Dr Holmes had told her to
make him notice real things"
Elaine Showalter, 'The Female Malady'
Anotações:
His grief and introspection are emotions that are consigned to the feminine"
"as soldiers returned to take over their former places as social leaders, women returned to their former places as primary psychiatric patients"
"Septimus feels so much because others feel so little"
Wir Mitchells 'Rest cure' -
Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte
Perkins Gilman
The aeroplane
Different perceptions
"The Mark on the wall"
"Everyone looked up"
Freedom of thought
"The aeroplane turned and
raced and swooped exactly
where it liked, swiftly, freely,
like a skater - ... or a dancer"
"Away and away the aeroplane shot, till
it was nothing but a bright spark; an
aspiration; a concentration; a symbol...
of man's soul of his determination... to
get outside his body, beyond his house,
by means of thought
Heirarchy and class structure
People still have
great respect for
monarchy
Hugh's "little job at court"
However "the car went in
at the gates and nobody
looked at it"
"For the surface
agitation of the
passing car as it
sunk grazed
something very
profound"
The Car
"ruffling the faces on
both sides of the street
with the same dark
breath of veneration
whether for Queen,
Prince, or Prime Minister"
"greatness was seated within...
removed only by a hand's
breadth from ordinary people"
Who is in the
car is unknown
Anotações:
This symbol that they have created for themselves is hollow
"strangers looked at
each other and
though of the dead;
of the flag; of
Empire"
"bestowed emotion,
vainly, upon
commoners out for
a drive"