". . .and how she dressed, how she treated people who came to lunch she did not care a but, it being her experience that the religious ecstasy made people callous. . ." (12)
Religious ecstasy is a state that changes your mind and bodies perception on things. Many different things can induce this such as drugs, coffee and fasting. Woolf is an extremely interesting person and that may be why she includes this unique phrase in her novel.
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Would Woolf include something just because she finds it interesting? Think about the rest of the novel -- is there more deliberate intent to create meaning or is there more coincidence and random referencing?
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