“It is to burn with a passion. It is never to rest, interminably, from searching for the archive, right where it slips away. It is to run after the archive, even if there’s too much of it, right where something in it anarchives itself. It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, and irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

– Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever, 91

Thoughts, ideas, concept, belief, argument, conception, notion, impression, conviction: all these are conjured from the reading of literature. Sometimes the most profound and deranged ideas can come from a previous author’s thought. This commonplace book draws the connections between texts we have explored throughout this short semester. I will explore the aspects of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolf that stood out to me; more importantly, introduced me to connections with the outside world and other texts. How does isolation play a role in this text? Can love and isolation be equated in the text and in the secular world? Can memories remain forever? Is class division still relevant? If it is, how big is the gap? I would like to explore these questions through the use of the text and my own subjective thoughts.

You will find the textual evidence bolded in the passage, food four thought in the form of pictures, and connections to other texts we have read.