Frame 1


She pierced the pincushion

Frame 2


and laid her feathered yellow hat on the bed.

Frame 3


Aunt Helena never liked discussion of
anything. (When Sally gave her William
Morris
, it had to be wrapped in brown
paper.)

.


Frame 4


Sally went out, picked hollyhocks,
dahlias - all sorts of flowers that
had never been seen together --


Frame 5


cut their heads off

Frame 6


and made them swim on the top of water in bowls.






Frame 7


The effect was extraordinary coming into dinner in the sunset

.

Frame 8

Of course thought it wicked to treat flowers like that.

Frame 9

Sally said to herself, as if she had known
all along that something would
interrupt, would embitter her moment of happiness.

Pamela Gay: I selected some lines scattered over a few pages of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway to make a micro-story about Sally, who knew Clarissa Dalloway when they were both coming-of-age. I "framed" the lines to draw attention to the text and to help readers/viewers think about text as image. Frames 1 and 2 (these quotations) are actually in reference to two movements of Clarissa Dalloway and Frame 9, a thought of Clarissa's. But I transfer them to Sally. I imagine Sally piercing the pincushion; wearing a yellow-feathered hat; and exclaiming "Oh Horror," in the end--not liking her "moment of being" (of happiness, delight) interrupted. The vignette title comes from words spoken by Sally's Aunt Helena in Woolf's text. Frame-page correspondence as follows: frames 1 & 2(33); frame 3(35); frames 4-8(36); frame 9(38). Everyman's Library Edition.