"Then while a seedy-looking nondescript man...flew the aeroplane over the Ludgate Circus" (28).
The Ludgate Circus is a hill located in London. The hill is where St. Paul's Cathedral is located, and it is said to have also been the site of a Roman temple of the Goddess Diana. Virginia Woolf made the reference to Ludgate Circus because she had been speaking of St. Paul's Cathedral, and of its high ranking men who now lay there to rest. The Cathedral on the hill is a symbol in Virginia Woolf's eyes of how mankind will strive to accomplish great things throughout their lives to get recognition for it later. All of the men buried in the tombs underneath St. Paul's are famous, which makes other people look at them as superior; as their idles.
"Ludgate Hill." Absolute Astronomy. 26 September 2009. 2009.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Ludgate_Hill#encyclopedia
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