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  1. Nov 2025
    1. To call it pudding and so relate itto rice and tapioca would be an insult.

      This line exaggerates how fancy the men’s college lunch was. Woolf describes the food as rich and luxurious, and then jokes that calling the dessert “pudding,” like plain rice or tapioca, would be insulting because it was so much better than that. This shows how much more privilege and comfort the men had. In broader context of the essay, this part supports Woolf’s point that money, comfort, and good living conditions help people think and create. The food comparison highlights that these advantages were given to men, while women were left with far less and need to work harder in order to afford one

    2. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion onedoes hold

      Here, Woolf emphasizes that truth is shaped by individual perspective and cannot be separated from the personal experiences, biases, and social conditions of the speaker. Also, this part suggests that viewpoint is heavily influenced by factors such as access to education, lived experiences, gender, class etc.

      thus, I think Woolf's idea can also be applied to how people on social media nowadays throwing their opinions where people often believe or see what they want to believe because they interpret situations through their own perspective