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    1. efeldman 22 Sep 2022
      Suppose the looking glass Xlooking glassWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Two Stories. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1917.looking glassWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. 2nd ed. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919.looking glassWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Monday or Tuesday. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921.looking glassWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Monday or Tuesday. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1921.looking-glassWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Press, 2012. Print. Reprint of Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. London: Hogarth Press, 1944.looking-glassWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1944. smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people—what an airless XairlessWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Two Stories. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1917.airless,WITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. 2nd ed. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919.airless,WITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Monday or Tuesday. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921.airless,WITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Monday or Tuesday. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1921.airless,WITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1944.airless,WITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Press, 2012. Print. Reprint of Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. London: Hogarth Press, 1944. shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes!

      It seems that this short story is the fiction version of the essays we have read from Virginia. This story is meant to illustrate how rich modernist writing is--how if you look beyond the surface, beyond plot and conventions and superficial facts, all kinds of imagination and thought are possible. Every different tangent she goes on is another metaphor to illustrate this point--in this case, the looking glass symbolizes a deeper perception of oneself, and pre-modern writing smashes this image, leaving only outward appearances and getting rid of any depth and beauty.

    2. efeldman 22 Sep 2022
      And if I were to get up at this very moment and ascertain that the mark on the wall is really—what shall we say?—the head of a gigantic old nail, driven in two hundred years ago XagoWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Two Stories. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1917.ago,WITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. 2nd ed. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919.ago,WITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Monday or Tuesday. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921.ago,WITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Monday or Tuesday. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1921.ago,WITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1944.ago,WITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Press, 2012. Print. Reprint of Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. London: Hogarth Press, 1944. which has now, owing to the patient attrition of many generations of housemaids, revealed its head above the coat of paint, and is taking its first view of modern life in the sight of a white-walled fire-lit room, what should I gain? Knowledge XKnowledgeWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Two Stories. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1917.—KnowledgeWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. 2nd ed. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919.—KnowledgeWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Monday or Tuesday. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1921.—KnowledgeWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In Monday or Tuesday. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1921.—KnowledgeWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1944.— KnowledgeWITNESS: Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Press, 2012. Print. Reprint of Woolf, Virginia. “The Mark on the Wall.” In A Haunted House and Other Short Stories. London: Hogarth Press, 1944. ?

      It seems here that Virginia is presenting the idea that fact is not so valuable; that there is a beauty in speculation, in the act of not knowing and leaving the essence of something ambiguous. Time and time again, it is her theorizing about this mark that brings her back from her dark thoughts, and it seems as if her uncertainty about its identity is a way to ground herself against the unpleasantness of rational knowledge. Is this a good perspective to have: to be content and even comfortable in the act of not knowing? Or can intentional ignorance end up only creating misinformation and holding society back?

    3. efeldman 22 Sep 2022
      Whitaker's Table of Precedency

      This references a British almanac that outlines rules of succession and hierarchies. It represents the masculine view of the world; how people are put into categories that are made to seem implicit and natural just because a man has devised it that way. It is the ultimate example of a surface reality: rules and regulations that are not reliant on individual character.

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