one of the things that claudia says during the seance that i’ve been thinking about is when she refers to the pages louis read to bruce as being from her “little girl diary”. throughout the interview both daniel and the show itself point out the holes in louis’ story— he is an unreliable source of information, but we are presented with claudia’s word as objective historical record. daniel acknowledges it as such, but louis takes it a step further in presenting them as who claudia was, a complete account of the daughter he lost. and the show accepts this, santiago reads her words as evidence in the trial, and we as the audience build a picture of claudia that combines every diary entry into one simultaneous understanding of who she was. there’s no regard for the fact that she changed as a person over the course of writing them, or even that her written record might be unreliable. the diaries that should give her depth as a person flatten her out into a historical object no different than the dress she died in
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