Since he belonged, even at the age of six, to that great clan which
cannot keep this feeling separate from that, but must let future
prospects, with their joys and sorrows, cloud what is actually at hand,
since to such people even in earliest childhood any turn in the wheel
of sensaton has the power to crystallise and transfix the moment upon
which its gloom or radiance rests, James Ramsay, sitting on the floor
cutting out pictures from the illustrated catalogue of the Army and
Navy Stores, endowed the picture of a refrigerator, as his mother
spoke, with heavenly bliss.
--Virginia Woolf. To the Lighthouse