“For having lived in Westminster—how many years now? Over twenty,--one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable.”
Clarissa Dalloway’s connection to the city, linking her own heartbeat to the clock’s chimes
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and sensory details (like sound, music, and the feeling of a heartbeat)
