If you've ever wished for time to stop, I suggest you read To The Lighthouse. Mrs. Dalloway was lost on me but I realise that Woolf requires patience and complete concentration and if you allow mind and body to stay still for long enough, the beauty of her prose will reveal itself. Her characters are like portraits that need to be contemplated. Actually, her books are analogous to paintings - every word a brushstroke; and trying to determine what an artist might be thinking when she lets the light fall here and not there, is what Woolf seeks to understand: the process and structure of thought. Woolf deals with the passage of time, loss, the distance between the closest of people and how those divides can be bridged. Her language is lyrical, poetic and profound. She's a genius, I get that now.