"The Waves" という作品に出てくる6人のうちの一人が Rhoda という名前で、Virginia
Woolf 自身の分身だそうだ。私自身も、Rhoda が一番好きだ。彼女のセリフを引用する。

'Oh, life, how I have dreaded you,' said Rhoda, 'oh, human beings, how I have hated you!
How you have nudged, how you have interrupted, how hideous you have looked in Oxford Street,
how squalid sitting opposite each other staring in the Tube! Now as I climb this mountain, from the top of
which I shall see Africa, my mind is printed with brown-paper parcels and your faces. I have been stained
by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets. All were dressed
in indeterminate shades of grey and brown, never even a blue feather pinned to a hat. None had the courage
to be one thing rather than another. What dissolution of the soul you demanded in order to get through one day,
what lies, bowings, scrapings, fluency and servility! How you chained me to one spot, one hour, one chair, and sat
yourselves down opposite! How you snatched from me the white spaces that lie between hour and hour and rolled
them into dirty pellets and tossed them into the waste-paper basket with your greasy paws. Yet those were my life
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