A day following Mrs. Dalloway's footsteps must be compressed into a couple of hours if I'm to make the Virginia Woolf Society annual meeting and lecture at the University of London. I take the Tube to Westminster Station and am enthralled by the new station's bowels.
I suspect the area around Westminster is very different from Virginia Woolf's time. I'll bet Mrs. Dalloway would be surprised to see her beloved Big Ben silenced and under refurbishment. It should be done by 2021. Also, the London Eye was not around in 1924, as well as much of the South Bank.
So many people, so much traffic on a Saturday. I can't believe all of these tourists are getting in the way of my serious academic efforts! On to Bloomsbury, and my fellow Virginia Woolf society members.
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