<div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>I may be wrong, but this is a very odd map which has Septimus living quite near to Clarissa. This is not the case. He lives in Bloomsbury, not Westminster.</div><div><br></div><div>The impression--widely shared--that Elizabeth's bus passes Septimus' window and that they might have seen each other derives as much from the movie of <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i>--where it is quite a striking and beautiful panning shot--as from the book.</div><div><br></div><div>There are some really enticing textual clues that point us in this direction--the bus itself, Elizabeth and Septimus both overhearing street music--but Septimus is in Bloomsbury and Elizabeth is heading up the Strand. I looked and looked, but I couldn't make the map work.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Anne</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Jeremy Hawthorn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no" target="_blank">jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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A colleague who is teaching <i>Mrs Dalloway</i> fired a question
inspired partly by this useful resource:<br>
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<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mrsdallowaymappingproject.weebly.com_septimus-2Dand-2Drezia.html&d=CwMCaQ&c=aqMfXOEvEJQh2iQMCb7Wy8l0sPnURkcqADc2guUW8IM&r=k1OoytuRmrU4MiIwbI-7ElFohPGR5Vr0JxDyMjG9DsI&m=kGeBwjMcsgW2pAVhtybHdviFJP0VWp_7xHabFRht4r0&s=oS0nnohRg8XeIoObGqJRvXuQola-HYumFu5Xaisz15A&e=" target="_blank">http://mrsdallowaymappingproject.weebly.com/septimus-and-rezia.html</a><br>
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As my colleague says, this links Victoria Street to Septimus's place
of death (point 7), and also suggests that immediately prior to his
death Septimus can see an omnibus carrying Elizabeth: "During this
time, Septimus is gazing outside the window of his home and sees the
omnibus in the distance" (point 6).<br>
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But the only textual evidence I can find for this is Septimus's
consciousness registering that the light and shadow "now made the
omnibuses bright yellow." And anyway, Elizabeth has got off the
(first) omnibus now, has "turned back down the Strand", and has
mounted (presumably another) omnibus. I can't find any evidence that
Septimus actually sees a specific bus carrying Elizabeth (note the
plural, the omnibus<u>es</u> are bright yellow).<br>
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Or am I missing something?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Jeremy Hawthorn
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