Virginia Woolf’s technique is very interesting, a particular attention goes to her use of "moments of being”: powerful and memorable (even if the events themselves are unimportant) that they can be vividly recalled while other events are easily forgotten. She asserts that there are two kinds of experiences: moments of being and non- being. Woolf never explicitly defines what she means by "moments of being." Instead she provides examples of these moments and contrasts them with moments of what she calls "non-being." Moments of non-being appear to be moments that the individual is not consciously aware of even as she experiences them. This part of the life is "not lived consciously," but instead is embedded in "a kind of nondescript cotton wool" It is not the nature of the actions that separates moments of being from moments of non- being. One activity is not intrinsically more mundane or more extraordinary than the other. Instead, it is the intensity of feeling, one's consciousness of the experience, that separates the two moments. A walk in the country can easily be hidden behind the cotton wool for one person, but for Woolf the experience is very vivid. Woolf asserts that these moments of being are flashes of awareness. All this moments are marked by particularly vivid and powerful language. Because these are moments of exact feeling, the language used to convey them must naturally be precise and evocative; the form and content must be in perfect symmetry. It is true that in a novel long stretches of narrative can be cloaked in mundane language: not every scene is of equal value or must carry an equal weight. But in her moments of being Woolf uses a language that approaches poetry.