'the ground floor and first floor of a fashionable house. Only a corner of it is visible' p157
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Student's hands
'I've been ********* open wounds and dead bodies' p158
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fate
'the ways of fate are strange' p159
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different sides of the story
'it's strange how a story can exist in two such different versions' p160
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inside the house (student's view)
'I thought of all the beauty and luxury there must be inside' p162
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Old Man's reaction to Milkmaid
'(recoils). Milkmaid?' p163 '(sits down and cringes in terror' p171
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What the old man wants/what he does
'He wants power [...] mucks around with people's destinies [...] he steals human beings' p168-9
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The Mummy's voice
'(in the voice of a small child)' '(speaks like a parrot)' p174
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Colonel's true past
'His life's a lie too, though. Even his pedigree' p175
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crimes, secrets, guilt
'our crimes bind us; our secrets and our guilt' p176
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the young
'not the young. let them be spared' p179
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silence and words
'silence hides nothing. words conceal' p179
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secrets revealed
'the time sometimes comes when that which is most secret must be revealed, when the mask is stripped from the deceiver's face, when the identity of the criminal is exposed' p179
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foul air
'this air foul with crime and treachery and falsehood has withered her' p180
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time, the past
'but I can halt time. I can wipe out the past, undo what has been done' p180
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shrinking
'during what follows, he shrinks smaller and smaller' p181
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old man, vampire
'vampire sucking all the goodness out of our home [...] bloodsucker' p181
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flower description
'white of snow and innocence, the honey-gold of sweetness, the rose-pink of youth, the scarlet of maturity; but above all the blue - the blue of deep eyes, of dew, of steadfastness' p183
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talking, deception
'"what is the point of our talking? We cannot deceive each other' p184
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the desk
'it's very beautiful.' 'but it won't stand straight' p186
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the cook
'you drain the goodness out of us, and we drain it from you' p187
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honesty
'if people really were honest the world would come to an end' p188
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rotten
'water which has remained stationary and silent for too long becomes rotten. It's the same with this house. Something has rotted here, too' p189
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earth
'jesus christ descended into hell when he wandered through this madhouse, this brothel, this morgue which we call earth' p190
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painting, music
'Bocklin's painting of the Island of the Dead appears in the background. Soft music, calm and gently melancholy, is heard from the island' p191
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
'I've been ********* open wounds and dead bodies' p158
Back
Student's hands
Card 3
Front
'the ways of fate are strange' p159
Back
Card 4
Front
'it's strange how a story can exist in two such different versions' p160
Back
Card 5
Front
'I thought of all the beauty and luxury there must be inside' p162
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