[Vwoolf] lighthouse and bell

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

On the subject of the lighthouse, in this passage from /Mrs Dalloway/ is 
there a comparison between the chime of a clock and the flash of the (or 
a) lighthouse?

Love — but here the other clock, the clock which always struck two 
minutes after Big Ben, came shuffling in with its lap full of odds and 
ends, which it dumped down as if Big Ben were all very well with his 
majesty laying down the law, so solemn, so just, but she must remember 
all sorts of little things besides — Mrs. Marsham, Ellie Henderson, 
glasses for ices — all sorts of little things came flooding and lapping 
and dancing in on the wake of that solemn stroke which lay flat like a 
bar of gold on the sea.

There is certainly a move from the auditory to the visual, along with 
various water images.

Jeremy H


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