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The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf

LitReading - Classic Short Stories

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The Phantom of Freedom

The rule for tablecloths at that particular period was that they should be made of tapestry with little yellow compartments marked upon them, such as you may see in photographs of the carpets and the corridors of royal palaces. How shocking! And yet how wonderful it was to discover these real things. What now takes the place of those things I wonder? Those real standard things. Men perhaps? Should you be a woman, the masculine point of view which governs our lives,. which establishes Whitaker's table of presidency has become, I suppose, since the war, half a phantom to many men and women.

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