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To the Lighthouse
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- Still, if every door in a house is left perpetually open, and no lockmaker in the whole of Scotland can mend a bolt, things must spoil.†
Part 1 *
- Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lamp-shade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted.†
Part 3
- And, resting, looking from one to the other vaguely, the old question which traversed the sky of the soul perpetually, the vast, the general question which was apt to particularise itself at such moments as these, when she released faculties that had been on the strain, stood over her, paused over her, darkened over her.†
Part 3
- Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension.†
Part 3
- But always something—it might be a face, a voice, a paper boy crying STANDARD, NEWS—thrust through, snubbed her, waked her, required and got in the end an effort of attention, so that the vision must be perpetually remade.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(perpetual) continuing forever without change; or occurring so frequently it seems constant
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)