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Children can be fascinated by pretty much anything. As a child, I remember looking at the walls in my room. The walls in Swiss apartments aren't smooth. They have "embossed"...well, pattern is too deliberate and artistic, it's more like relief with bigger and smaller half portruding circles and patches. Like a bad case of allergic skin reaction.
Anyhow, I used to stare at the walls, see patterns and faces, observe the shadows, until the surface started ondulating and shifting, crashing like waves ...more
Anyhow, I used to stare at the walls, see patterns and faces, observe the shadows, until the surface started ondulating and shifting, crashing like waves ...more
Continuing on the trend of reading stories which follow a ‘Less is more’ philosophy, the contender for this week was ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. I had entered the story intentionally blind, and mistaking it for a terror tale of sorts; I guess the title had given me Poe vibes for things within the wall, or wallpaper.
For such a short read, I went through several theories as to what it truly was as I read it. First I thought it was a typical horror tale set in a dilapidate ...more
For such a short read, I went through several theories as to what it truly was as I read it. First I thought it was a typical horror tale set in a dilapidate ...more
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