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    <updated_at>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:35:00 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm excited to read this one. I've got it, but don't have time at the moment to crack the massive tome. Looking forward to your thoughts.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:37:16 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[One comment on Werner's comment above regarding Nell and the planchette. One of the ways I think this novel is effective is that it's never clear exactly who or what is haunting the house. And that scene gives credence to the idea that perhaps it is Eleanor herself--or some part of her unconscious--that brings these events to pass. We know that in her youth she was involved in a physical manifestation of psychic phenomenon--the stones falling on/in the house--and there's some question about whether she might have directly or indirectly brought about her mother's death. Is it possible that, without knowing it, she can manifest her will? Is that why the house seems to want her? Why it's her name that's written on the walls? Not that she did it herself, but that she makes it happen?<br/><br/>I don't know. That's part of what makes this book so good. If that is right, then what drives her to suicide at the novel's ending, where she seems in those last moments to be unsure why she is driving into the tree? Is she being haunted? Or is she doing the haunting?<br/><br/>I love this book.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:10:33 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Fortunately (well, unfortunately, but you know what I mean), there will continue to be issues like the Henry Louis Gates arrest that hopefully will require the nation at a whole to continue examining the issue. ]]></body>
        
    
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