Dalloway” in the midst of this particular crisis, not least because the novel’s opening pages are probably the most ecstatic representation of running errands in the Western canon. It’s oddly fitting that so many people are reaching for Virginia Woolf’s “ Mrs. Dalloway said she would make the mask herself.” Dalloway said she would order from herself.” April 5th: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would have the flowers delivered because they were non-essential need, but she would make sure to tip the delivery guy at least 30% herself.” April 3rd: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would scroll through pictures of flowers herself.” March 31st: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would catch the virus herself.” (That one accompanied a photo of a crowded flower market in East London.) March 24th: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the sanitiser herself.” March 23rd: “Mrs. dalloway said she would disinfect the doorknobs herself.” March 19th: “Mrs. In the first days of the stay-in-place orders made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic, anxious variations on one of the most famous openings in English literature began cropping up on Twitter. Virginia Woolf understood as well as anyone the long-term effects that viruses could wreak on bodies, and on societies.
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