“The reign of chaos is over. He has imposed order. Knives cut again”

— Virginia Woolf , book The Waves

section IV
The Waves (1931)
Context: Now,’ said Neville, ‘my tree flowers. My heart rises. All oppression is relieved. All impediment is removed. The reign of chaos is over. He has imposed order. Knives cut again.’ [... ]
‘Here is Percival,’ said Bernard, ‘[... ] We [... ] now come nearer; and shuffling closer on our perch in this restaurant where everybody’s interests are at variance, and the incessant passage of traffic chafes us with distractions, and the door opening perpetually its glass cage solicits us with myriad temptations and offers insults and wounds to our confidence — sitting together here we love each other and believe in our own endurance.

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