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<title type="245">Virginia Woolf's The Waves</title>
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The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from
the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had
wrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay
on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth
became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath
the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually.
<p> As they neared the shore each bar rose, heaped itself, broke and
swept a thin veil of white water across the sand. The wave paused,
and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes
and goes unconsciously. Gradually the dark bar on the horizon
became clear as if the sediment in an old wine-bottle had sunk
and left the glass green. Behind it, too, the . . .