“For there we sit surrounded by objects which enforce the memories of our own experience... But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughness a central pearl of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!” SpaceIdentityPerceptionPublic LifeThe SelfCommutingFlaneurLiving SpacePerambulator Author:Virginia Woolf
“Nor had I any illusions about Algernon Charles Swinburne, who often used to stop my perambulator when he met it on Nurses’ Walk, at the edge of Wimbledon Common, and pat me on the head and kiss me: he was an inveterate pram-stopper and patter and kisser.” BabyPerambulatorSwinburnePram Book:Goodbye To All That Source: Goodbye To All That
“There is a safety mechanism in place [to ensure the perambulator doesn't turn back into a purse with a baby in it] : if anything weighing more than a pound and a half-about the weight of a three-volume novel-is in the carriage of the perambulator, it will not transform.” HumorousSillyImportance Of Being EarnestPerambulator Book:All Men of Genius Source: All Men of Genius