Our Water/Ocean cluster begins with Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. This curious novel describes two days (separated by ten dramatic years) in the life of the Ramsay family as they stay at their holiday home in the Scottish Hebrides with their assorted friends and hangers-on. But the novel does not concoct a wild plot; instead, it examines how the characters observe each other’s internal and emotional states. Chris and Suzanne explore the way Woolf and her characters try to capture not only the endless flow of time, but also those moments when people are configured just so and time seems to stand still.