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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway. In a hole in the ground there lived Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 1:47 am • 180 11

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Old School Kitty @cantwellk.bsky.social

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 2:42 am • 5 0 • view
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot for taking a teapot that wasn’t his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by Mrs. Dalloway after the war. And so on. I’ve changed all their names.

mar 31, 2025, 2:27 am • 2 0 • view
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social

We tell Mrs. Dalloway stories in order to live.

mar 31, 2025, 2:31 am • 4 0 • view
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Diana’s ASMR @dianahollins.bsky.social

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a zombie in possession of Mrs. Dalloway must be in want of more Mrs. Dalloway.

apr 1, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
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💀ℭ𝔦𝔯𝔠𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫💀 @circlingthedrain.bsky.social

It was the best of Mrs.Dalloway. It was the worst of Mrs.Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 7:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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Taj Mahalo @tajmahalo.bsky.social

Mrs. Dalloway was dead, to begin with.

mar 31, 2025, 2:07 am • 6 0 • view
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Anna R Werner @annarwerner.bsky.social

"Where's Mrs. Dalloway going with that ax?"

mar 31, 2025, 6:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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Chicago Ls @dstrickland621.bsky.social

Mrs Dalloway fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

mar 31, 2025, 1:48 am • 2 0 • view
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Chicago Ls @dstrickland621.bsky.social

Or; The man in black fled across the desert and Mrs Dalloway follower

mar 31, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
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Annalouche @annalou.bsky.social

Mrs Galloway, light of my life, fire of my loins.

mar 31, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
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Seldom Seen Smith @ghayduke.bsky.social

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when Mrs. Dalloway began to take hold.

mar 31, 2025, 2:02 am • 3 0 • view
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BP Gregory @bpgregory.bsky.social

In a hole in Mrs Dalloway there lived a hobbit

mar 31, 2025, 5:29 am • 2 0 • view
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philstretend.bsky.social @philstretend.bsky.social

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking Mrs Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 7:04 pm • 2 0 • view
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Stroppy @stroppy.bsky.social

In my younger and more vulnerable years Mrs. Dalloway gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

mar 31, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Brian Smith @ambientrelish.bsky.social

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when Mrs. Dalloway began to take hold.

mar 31, 2025, 5:16 pm • 3 0 • view
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Frank Hudson @frankhudson.bsky.social

Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you Mrs. Dalloway?

mar 31, 2025, 3:39 am • 3 0 • view
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david--p.bsky.social @david--p.bsky.social

I ask children who may read this book to forgive me for dedicating it to Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 3:16 am • 2 0 • view
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Jon Freeman @jon-freeman.bsky.social

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where Mrs. Dalloway was born, and what her lousy childhood was like, and how her parents were occupied and all before they had her, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it...

mar 31, 2025, 5:18 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jon Freeman @jon-freeman.bsky.social

Let us go then, Mrs. Dy, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table...

mar 31, 2025, 5:17 pm • 3 0 • view
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Stephen R. Smith @stephensmith.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway. Mrs. Dalloway happened every year, was almost a ritual.

mar 31, 2025, 1:59 am • 3 0 • view
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Let's just be good, okay? @flamingpretzel.bsky.social

Mrs. Dalloway fled across the desert, And the gunslinger followed.

mar 31, 2025, 3:13 am • 3 0 • view
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Eric Coffey @ecbean.bsky.social

Improve a first line by adding Mrs. Dalloway. It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the Mrs. Dalloway he fell madly in love with . (sorry 2nd sentence)

mar 31, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
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Brian Russell @brianprussell.bsky.social

You beat me to it. By 3 minutes!

mar 31, 2025, 1:55 am • 1 0 • view
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Pablo Z @laletrazeta.bsky.social

A spectre haunts Europe: the spectre of Mrs. Dalloway

mar 31, 2025, 5:33 am • 3 0 • view
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Arthur Painter @scarecrowsbrain.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway. In the beginning Mrs. Dalloway created the heavens and the earth.

mar 31, 2025, 2:25 am • 5 0 • view
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berkowitz.bsky.social @berkowitz.bsky.social

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Mrs. Dalloway, in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. (Not a 1-1 replacement, but I hope you'll forgive me for the result.)

mar 31, 2025, 2:07 am • 6 0 • view
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Foghorn-Legiron @foghorn-legiron.bsky.social

It was the day Mrs Dalloway exploded.

mar 31, 2025, 6:16 pm • 2 0 • view
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Amy Kline @amy612.bsky.social

A green hunting cap squeezed the fleshy balloon of a Mrs. Dalloway.

apr 1, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 1:48 am • 66 3 • view
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy Mrs. Dalloway is unhappy in its own way.

mar 31, 2025, 1:50 am • 2 0 • view
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 1:51 am • 2 0 • view
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: In our family, there was no clear line between Mrs. Dalloway and fly-fishing.

mar 31, 2025, 1:54 am • 3 0 • view
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: A screaming comes across Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 1:50 am • 23 0 • view
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Ken Rudman @krudman.bsky.social

I would have thought “A Mrs. Dalloway comes screaming across the sky.”

mar 31, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Mrs. Dalloway and a ride home.

mar 31, 2025, 1:54 am • 29 0 • view
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: "Where's Mrs. Dalloway going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.

mar 31, 2025, 1:58 am • 83 5 • view
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volcanicsand.bsky.social @volcanicsand.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when Mrs. Dalloway began to take hold."

mar 31, 2025, 2:01 am • 2 0 • view
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social

I was just coming here to do that exact one.

mar 31, 2025, 2:06 am • 4 0 • view
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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social

Just waiting for: "Mrs. Dalloway, light of my life, fire of my loins . . . "

mar 31, 2025, 2:09 am • 4 0 • view
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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social

Call me Mrs. Dalloway

mar 31, 2025, 2:09 am • 17 1 • view
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psm25.bsky.social @psm25.bsky.social

Mrs. Dalloway was getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do.

mar 31, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon and a picture of Mrs. Dalloway jumping over the moon

mar 31, 2025, 2:03 am • 96 5 • view
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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social

Ah, you got there first!

mar 31, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of Mrs. Dalloway buried.

mar 31, 2025, 2:11 am • 3 1 • view
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Renee Dickinson @drwren.bsky.social

Mrs. Dalloway was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.

mar 31, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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jacqznyc @jacqznyc.bsky.social

It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that Mrs Dalloway had come to see me.

mar 31, 2025, 2:15 am • 1 0 • view
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Richard Dickson @dailyrich.bsky.social

"In a hole in Mrs. Dalloway there lived a hobbit." I don't think I'm doing this right.

mar 31, 2025, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
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David Curley @justified.bsky.social

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of Mrs. Dalloway

mar 31, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Bernadette Murphy @bernadetmurphy.bsky.social

My fav!

mar 31, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social

I am Mrs. Dalloway. Mrs. Dalloway I am.

mar 31, 2025, 1:56 am • 2 0 • view
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Elvis-it's a nickname @zolascola.bsky.social

Once upon a Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
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Brian Russell @brianprussell.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway: In my younger and more vulnerable years Mrs. Dalloway gave me some of advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

mar 31, 2025, 1:58 am • 1 0 • view
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Wordorigins.org @wordorigins.bsky.social

Sing, goddess, of the anger of Mrs. Dalloway, daughter of Peleus, destructive as it was...

mar 31, 2025, 7:25 pm • 2 0 • view
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offthecouch.bsky.social @offthecouch.bsky.social

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Galloway. I first met Dean not long after Mrs. Dalloway and I split up.

mar 31, 2025, 3:35 am • 4 0 • view
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Erin Goatkeeper @handtotheneedle.bsky.social

It was the best of times, it was the worst of Mrs Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 3:17 am • 1 0 • view
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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social

In this universe the character of Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is treated rather differently.

mar 31, 2025, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
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Sam Waller @samwalmd.bsky.social

Stately, plump Mrs. Dalloway came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

mar 31, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ross @flicksfan.bsky.social

James Joyce is looking down from heaven enjoying this, I'm sure: 'Woolf’s reading of Ulysses, which she documented in her diary in a “withering assessment” as the work of “a self-taught working man… egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, & ultimately nauseating.” ' www.openculture.com/2013/09/virg...

mar 31, 2025, 12:19 pm • 4 0 • view
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DrLiseKit @lisekit.bsky.social

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is Mrs Dalloway in its own way.

mar 31, 2025, 4:56 pm • 2 0 • view
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Kevin Castro, MA @kevincastror.bsky.social

Call me Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 1:51 am • 14 0 • view
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PNW BlueSkie @pnwblueskie.bsky.social

It was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me Mrs. Dalloway and it didn't occur to me to mind.

mar 31, 2025, 2:21 am • 2 0 • view
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fatherofgirls.bsky.social @fatherofgirls.bsky.social

Mrs. Dalloway you’re my only hope.

mar 31, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
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Mark Coatney @mcoatney.bsky.social

Many years later, as she faced the firing squad, Mrs. Dalloway was to remember that distant afternoon when her father took her to discover ice.

mar 31, 2025, 2:02 am • 9 0 • view
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Andy Bates @andrewjohnbates.bsky.social

Last night I dreamt I went to Mrs Dalloway again.

mar 31, 2025, 9:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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brentlythomas @brentlythomas.bsky.social

this one is 👨‍🍳💋

mar 31, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view
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cannemcleod.bsky.social @cannemcleod.bsky.social

Mrs Dalloway was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

mar 31, 2025, 2:20 am • 0 0 • view
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Scotus • I❤️🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @nohaengja.bsky.social

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into Mrs. Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 2:10 am • 7 0 • view
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Brian Russell @brianprussell.bsky.social

I’m going to cheat and do two lines. It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw Mrs. Dalloway he fell madly in love with her.

mar 31, 2025, 1:54 am • 4 0 • view
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Wendybm @wendybm.bsky.social

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning Mrs Dalloway.

mar 31, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social

Mrs. Dalloway happened, more or less.

mar 31, 2025, 5:57 am • 16 1 • view
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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social

Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Clarissa, Edmund and Lucy.

mar 31, 2025, 6:02 am • 2 0 • view
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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social

When we compare the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated Mrs Dalloways and Orlandos, one of the first points which strikes us is, that they generally differ more from each other than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature.

mar 31, 2025, 6:07 am • 1 0 • view
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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social

I was the shadow of Mrs Dalloway slain /

mar 31, 2025, 6:14 am • 2 0 • view