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The Lady Of The House Of Love Flashcards

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What sleep disorder is she described as having and what does she do ‘helplessly’?

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‘The beautiful somnambulist helplessly perpetuates her ancestral crimes’

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How is her sadness described?

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‘The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden’

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What was she wearing?

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‘Wearing an antique bridal gown’

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She is described as the queen of what? What does she do?

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‘The beautiful queen of the vampires sits all alone in her dark, high house’

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What is her voice filled with?

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‘distant sororities’

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Finish the sentence: “now you are at the…”

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“Place of annihilation”

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What does she ask herself?

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‘Can a bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?’

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How is she described after she draws her fingernail across the cage and it makes a ‘plangent twang’?

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‘like that of a plucked heartstrings of a woman of metal’

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How is her hair described?

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‘Her hair falls down like tears’

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The description of her unnatural beauty….

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‘She is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections that reconcile us to the imperfection of the human condition’

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What is her beauty a symptom of?

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‘Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness’

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What does she like to hear from her pet lark?

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‘She likes to hear it announce how it cannot escape’

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How are her teeth described, using sibilance?

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‘Teeth as fine and white as spikes of spun sugar’

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What is in the middle of her room?

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‘An elaborate catafalque, in ebony’

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What does she dream of?

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‘In her dream, she would like to be human’

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What does she wear when she goes to sleep at dawn?

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‘In a white lace neglige stained a little with blood’

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Describe how she catches her prey..

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‘Crouching, quivering, she catches the scent of her prey. Delicious crunch of the fragile bones of rabbits’

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How does she go home after catching her prey?

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‘She will creep home, whimpering, with blood smeared on her cheeks’

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What are her feelings for her role?

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‘Her terrible reluctance for the role’

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What would she like to do with the gipsy boys instead of killing them?

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‘She would like to caress their lean brown cheeks and stroke their ragged hair’

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What will the blood be mixed with after she eats her prey?

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‘The blood on the Countess’ cheeks will be mixed with tears’

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What does the British boy have the special quality of?

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‘He has the special quality of virginity, most and least ambiguous of states: ignorance, yet at the same time, power in potentia’

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Although he is young, he also what? And what transport has he chosen?

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‘Although so young, he is also rational. He has chosen the most rational mode of transport’

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What does the young officer in the British army laugh about?

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'’On two wheels in the land of the vampires’’

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What is his rationality about to collide with?

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‘The timeless gothic eternity of the vampires’

26
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What wakes who?

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‘A single kiss woke up the Sleeping Beauty in the wood’

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What is she surprised to find she has laid in her Tarot cards?

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‘The lovely cartomancer has, this time, the first time, dealt herself a hand of love and death’

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How is the scent of the roses first described?

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‘A great, intoxicated surge of the heavy scent of red roses blew into his face’

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What do the roses induce?

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‘Inducing a sensuous vertigo’

30
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Description of the roses: ‘faintly..

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..corrupt sweetness strong enough almost, to fell him’

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What’s the description of the roses and their implications?

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‘Tightly budded cores outrageous in their implications’

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What was the interior of the house like?

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‘Ruinous…cobwebs, worm-eaten beams, crumbling plaster’

33
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Finish the sentence: “blast of cold air,

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as from the mouth of a grave”

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What did the Countess remind the British boy of?

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‘A child dressing up in her mother’s clothes’

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How did she live in the ‘self-articulated garment’?

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‘Like a ghost in a machine’

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Finish the sentence: “a girl with

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the fragility of a moth”

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How is her voice described?

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‘Her voice is curiously disembodied; she is like a doll, he thought, a ventriloquists doll’

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Because of his virginity, he doesn’t know there is anything to be afraid of, so simply sees her as….

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‘an inbred, highly strung girl child’

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As she struggles with her broken glasses, she cuts her thumb. What description follows?

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‘watches the bright bead of blood form a drop. She has never seen he said own blood before’

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How does the boy try to help?

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‘He puts his mouth to the wound. He will kiss it better for he, as her mother, had she lived, would have done’

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What are the ancestors described as thinking when she pricks her thumb?

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‘How can she beer the pain of becoming human?’

42
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The boy wants to take her away in order to…

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‘Turn her into the lovely girl she is; I shall cure her of all these nightmares’

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How is she described in death?

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‘In death, she looked far older, less beautiful and so, for the first time, fully human’

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What does she leave him?

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‘Dark, fanged rose I plucked from between my thighs, like a flower laid on a grave’

45
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The flower regains life, how is it described?

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‘Reeling odour of a glowing, velvet, monstrous flower whose petals had regained all their former bloom and elasticity, their corrupt, brilliant, baleful splendour.’

46
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Next day?

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‘His regiment embarked for France’

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