How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
In my little street, however, domesticity prevailed. The house painter was descending his ladder; the nursemaid was wheeling the perambulator [...] (2.16)
Why is Woolf listing all of the dull things going on her street? We think it's her little slice of "unrecorded life"—all the mundane things that don't usually make it into literature.
Quote #5
She made up a small parcel of her belongings, let herself down by a rope one summer's night and took the road to London. (3.7)
Judith wants to see her name in lights! Or, er, illuminated by a lot of candles. But definitely on some big stage somewhere.
Quote #6
I [...] went on thought through the streets of London feeling in imagination the pressure of dumbness, the accumulation of unrecorded life. (5.14)
It seems overwhelming to walk through London imagining everything that hasn't been written down. How could anyone record so much? Don't all writers have to make judgment calls about what details to include?