“Woolf’s method of recording noise and response is unique among
modernists. In Ulysses, for example, Joyce also shows a heightened sensitivity to resonance, and like Woolf, he underscores representations of
noisy machines. Yet while Woolf presents sounds as inextricable from
her characters’ thoughts, in Ulysses utterances are generally objective
and onomatopoeic. In other words, everything audible—people and
machines—speaks for itself rather than through the mind of a character.
For example, in “Aeolus,” the most technological of chapters in the novel,
Leopold Bloom reflects on the mechanical hiss of a printing press:

Sllt. The nethermost deck of the first machine jogged forward its flyboard with sllt the first batch of quirefolded
papers. Sllt. Almost human the way it sllt to call attention. Doing its level best to speak. That door too sllt creaking,
asking to be shut. Everything speaks in its own way. Sllt”. 

Re-listening to Virginia Woolf: Sound Transduction and Private Listening in Mrs. Dalloway

Re-listening to Virginia Woolf: Sound Transduction and Private Listening in Mrs. Dalloway. Toth, Leah
Publication Criticism Volume 59, Issue 4, Start page 565, End page 587, Page count 22