In taking the sensibility of Woolf's novel, Skaer uses the carte blanche
afforded by fiction to make a room that is neither functional nor narrative, but it is specifically crafted to an unreasonable level.
Whoever considers [the sparse basic materials] which the Scriptures
afforded him will wonder
by what energetic operation he expanded them to such extent and ramified them to so much variety, restrained as he was
by religious reverence from licentiousness of
fiction.