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Quotation from Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

“And the twelfth stroke of midnight sounded; the twelfth stroke of midnight, Thursday, the eleventh of October, Nineteen hundred and Twenty Eight.”

Virginia Woolf (spoken by Narrator (the biographer))

Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 6 (final sentence) (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331)

Portrait of Virginia Woolf

Shelmerdine's aeroplane lands and the wild goose rises as the biography reaches the present moment.

Citation: "And the twelfth stroke of midnight sounded; the twelfth stroke of midnight, Thursday, the eleventh of October, Nineteen hundred and Twenty Eight." — Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 6 (final sentence) (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331). (id orlando-q7)

Portrait: Virginia Woolf 1927, Unknown author, Public domain.

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