Following the suggestion of Bateson that "redundancies at different levels … in works of art … are a necessary aspect of communicating information," Gliserman carefully examines Woolf's masterpiece and suggests the presence of an almost ubiquitous syntactic pattern. He further indicates that this pattern, in conjunction with the choice of specific language selected by the writer, becomes another unit of meaning directing the reader to a concern with "centers and middles." The meaning Gliserman reads into this abstract pattern concerns the relationship between and within males and females. By means of extensive textual references Gliserman