What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! i wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. i chafed against the work of school. at night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page i strove to read. the syllables of the word araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an eastern enchantment over me. i asked for leave to go to the bazaar on saturday night. my aunt was surprised, and hoped it was not some freemason affair. i answered few questions in class. i watched my master's face pass from amiability to sternness; he hoped i was not beginning too idle. i could not call my wandering thoughts together. i had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
which line from this excerpt of james joyce's "araby" indicates that the bazaar represents an escape for the narrator from his mundane life?
a. what innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening!
b. in the classroom her image came between me and the page i strove to read. the syllables of the word araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an eastern enchantment over me.
c. my aunt was surprised, and hoped it was not some freemason affair.
d. i watched my master's face pass from amiability to sternness; he hoped i was