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Two Stories was a publication from Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard Woolf. Virginia Woolf wrote "The Mark on the Wall" while her husband wrote "Three Jews." Both of these stories feature techniques such as a first-person point of view and stream of conscious thoughts. "The Mark on the Wall" itself is about a narrator who sees a mark on the wall, and this narrator tries to recall what it was. However, the narrator gets distracted by a variety of related and unrelated thoughts. Virginia Woolf herself was known for writing many essays and novels throughout her life, and was a very popular writer overall. Most importantly, she was influential in the sense that she wrote modernist works, which involves tactics such as stream of consciousness and absurdity. Because of aspects such as stream of consciousness in modernism literature, it helps capture the thoughts of a character and shows a realistic glimpse into humanity. Thoughts such as those found in a modernist piece of work are realistic, as people tend to go down rabbit holes within their own brain as they think about things and attempt to remember things; just like how the narrator of "The Mark on the Wall" thinks very hard and falls down rabbit holes of various thoughts throughout their own mind as well. 

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