No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
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Oct 17 '19, 12:56
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Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holdings darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
60 years ago today, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House was published
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