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2 days agoHow Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway' Predicted the Future 100 Years Ago
It's London, 1923. Everyone suddenly looks up. Every one looked up. Dropping dead down the aeroplane soared straight up, curved in a loop, raced, sank, rose, and whatever it did, wherever it went, out fluttered behind it a thick ruffled bar of white smoke which curled and wreathed upon the sky in letters. Near the beginning of Mrs. Dalloway, an ordinary day is disrupted by a technological intrusion.
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