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Barry Butler

Barry Butler

constance's saccharine personality lends to her (false) image of domesticity; it's significant that merricat specifically poisons the sugar, and that supposedly sweet constance never takes any with her food. this sweetness laced with something sinister is true both of the sugar and of constance herself, who reveals a crueler side to herself by the end of the book. the rest of the paper talks about how the blackwood sisters use food as a form of agency and as a "destructive force", which importantly is facilitated by their class. food as agency in shirley jackson's we have always lived in the castle

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[ID: Even if what’s taken place in the home is tragic rather than evil, hauntings are a way of preserving those memories spatially. Haunted houses allow for restless bodies to be laid to rest, for evildoers to be exposed, and for the history of a house or family to come to light. The stone tape theory, proposed in the 1970s, is a good example. This theory held that inanimate objects, like building materials, could essentially record murders and other tragic events. The idea that memory can be embedded into a house may be heartening when the human justice system fails End ID]

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Shanghai Art Museum.

The Radiant Meteor Storm of 9 October 1933 from the Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy