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Dallowaying
An essay on Lit Hub exploring the simple joy of running errands and romanticizing everyday tasks, inspired by Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.
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SamFirst to rec“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself! The purest pleasure in running errands and gathering all of your little things — picking up a library hold, getting provisions for the annual pot pie dinner, dropping a care package at the post office and choosing new stamps? you’re dallowaying! Dallowaying is anything as long as you’re lifted by the journey.”
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Treemiele“Dallowaying is the mise en scene of gathering versus the chore of errand running. Choosing this mindset for so many more tasks.”
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Sarah Cooney“This is the season of dallowaying”
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Angie“Love this, and love analyzing the notion in the context of the novel. ;)”
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eva h“yes yes yes”
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