[Vwoolf] the screen-making habit

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/ the way we make assumptions and judge people by merely looking at them is something which Woolf explores and employs in Between the Acts, when speaking of Giles’' thoughts which ran through his mind when he met William Dodge for the first time and was observing him in silence:

‘ What for did a good sort like the woman Manresa bring these half-breeds in her trail? Giles asked himself.’

‘A toady; a lickspittle; not a downright plain man of his senses; but a teaser and twitcher; a fingerer of sensations; picking and choosing; dillying and dallying; not a man to have straightforward love — his head was close to Isa’s head— but simply a —— At this word, which he could not speak in public, he pursed his lips’

‘Isabella guessed the word that Giles had not spoken. Well, was it wrong if he was that word? Why judge each other? Do we know each other? Not here, not now.’
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