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  1. Sep 2021
    1. What power could now prevent the fertility, the insensibility ofnature?Mrs. McNab's dream of a lady, of a child, of a plate of milksoup? It had wavered over the walls like a spot of sunlight andvanished.

      Its like a reminder of once was and is now forever gone.

    2. Getting up, she stood at the window with the reddish-brownstocking in her hands, partly to turn away from him, partly because sheremembered how beautiful it often is--the sea at night. But she knewthat he had turned his head as she turned; he was watching her. Sheknew that he was thinking, You are more beautiful than ever. And shefelt herself very beautiful. Will you not tell me just for once thatyou love me? He was thinking that, for he was roused, what with Mintaand his book, and its being the end of the day and their havingquarrelled about going to the Lighthouse. But she could not do it; shecould not say it. Then, knowing that he was watching her, instead ofsaying anything she turned, holding her stocking, and looked at him.And as she looked at him she began to smile, for though she had notsaid a word, he knew, of course he knew, that she loved him. He couldnot deny it. And smiling she looked out of the window and said(thinking to herself, Nothing on earth can equal this happiness)--

      The love between the two is there but there is an obstacle in the two that prohibit them just blatantly admitting it.

    3. And what then? For she felt that he was still looking at her, but thathis look had changed. He wanted something--wanted the thing she alwaysfound it so difficult to give him; wanted her to tell him that sheloved him. And that, no, she could not do. He found talking so mucheasier than she did. He could say things--she never could. Sonaturally it was always he that said the things, and then for somereason he would mind this suddenly, and would reproach her. Aheartless woman he called her; she never told him that she loved him.But it was not so--it was not so. It was only that she never could saywhat she felt.

      Maybe there is a love dynamic between the two but neither one can express it properly. The husband feel inadequate, while the wife can't express her feelings at all it seems.

  2. Aug 2020
    1. Keep in mind to notify instructor if I am not going to be able to attend class or be late. Contact instructor for a meeting on zoom to be make up for lost time and to be filled in on the class discussion.

    2. Give critical feedback on classmate replies rather than to just give simple agreements. Will there be any additional guidelines for replying to other students discussion board comments?

    3. Take care to read/watch the primary and secondary sources and take notes in order to be able to apply the given information to discussions or any assignments that will require it.

    4. Set up a way to balance out what time can be spent on a particular assignment to maximize time and effort. Also to focus on what needs to be done first in order to fit in with assignment deadlines.