Dear Virginia Woolf,
I have a response to your above quote.
Passion is what drives us to push on each day, no matter how horrible things might seem. All of the “buzzing, humming, and soaring roaring diving” is life flashing before our eyes, allowing our imagination to soar. Delving into the depths of humanity and our creative selves. In your novel Mrs. Dalloway, did you not intend for the reader to constantly see the conflict within Clarissa’s mind? Your literary use of stream of consciousness and sensory experience helps to create constant movement shifting through objective and subjective time, allowing Clarissa to define her own time—being bound by no one, but being kept alive by the memories of those that really truly know her. Clarissa’s being “buried in mud” was due to the constraints of her loveless marriage with Richard and knowing that her passionate love for Peter and Sally would remain caged unless she ripped through the cage herself. Although, her passion was caged, creating her insanity, she overcame her insanity with the mere thought of memories. By the end of her day she gained her independence and freedom at last.
We all experience conflict whether at home, school, work, or just in our minds. No matter how tough it gets, we control our own time—just like Clarissa. We are only bound by what we see as restricted. Embrace the “buzzing, humming, and soaring roaring diving”, and once in a while we all get “buried in the mud”! You have control over how your hours, days, months, or years are spent. Choose to spend them with what keeps your memories alive!
Virginia Woolf, I could not thank you enough for opening my mind to a new way of experiencing life and literature.
Angela Bradley-Volz
Angela Bradley-Volz 
Love your thoughts on Virginia Wolf. We all should be inspired by your enthusiastic response to Virginia’s writing of her mind and the creative process. It is obvious you understand the power that runs through your whole being that inspires you to write.
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Thank you! I am thoroughly engaged with Virginia’s use of literary technique. It’s amazing to see in and out of multiple character’s thoughts. Also, the constant changing flow of subjective and objective time defining control remains fascinating.
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