Annnnnnd it's done. I think I should read something better than this now. #LowBar #WilliamHenryIreland
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Not *another* memoir written in a wretched cell. #WilliamHenryIreland
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And now, in the last eleven pages, the villain from the novel's beginning suddenly reappears. #WhenPlottingContinuesToGoAstray #WilliamHenryIreland
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Now #WilliamHenryIreland is interrupting the plot with random ballads.
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Things are beginning to sound MACBETH-like again. #WilliamHenryIreland
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#WilliamHenryIreland has decided that as we're in the last twenty-five pages or so of his novel, now would be a good time to provide supernatural explanations for some of its events.
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Youthful love has just hit a roadblock, it appears. #WilliamHenryIreland
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Uh-oh, ominous epigraph... #WilliamHenryIreland
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We had a break from "gloom," but alas, it has returned. #WilliamHenryIreland
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#WilliamHenryIreland has just assured the reader that the son doesn't use hair curlers, apparently.
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#WilliamHenryIreland has finally remembered that the protagonists' son is, in theory, an important character. #WhenPlottingGoesAstray
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Finally, an epigraph by somebody other than #WilliamHenryIreland.
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I see we're going to wrap up the novel with a slew of coincidences. #WilliamHenryIreland
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Yet more overly chatty villains. #WilliamHenryIreland
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Time for yet another inset narrative. #WilliamHenryIreland
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So, #WilliamHenryIreland has decided that this devoted mother should...simply abandon her son to a guardian, and spend the rest of her life taking care of a woman with whom she's spent almost no time at all? #CharacterizationBlues
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A whole lot of convenient eavesdropping going on here. #WilliamHenryIreland
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Yes, yes, I got that part of your backstory from that memoir you managed to write in your gloomy cell--do continue talking-- #WilliamHenryIreland #MultiplyingInsetNarratives
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Dear villain: please stop talking. #WilliamHenryIreland
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(We've had quite a bit of "gloom" in this chapter, although I suppose it's justified by the characters being in a cave.) #WilliamHenryIreland
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The epigraph once again gives away the chapter's ending. #NeedsSpoilerSpace #WilliamHenryIreland
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Our female protagonist's brilliance does not seem to encompass learning that suspicious-looking characters should, indeed, be regarded with suspicion. #WilliamHenryIreland
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More sub-Radcliffean sublime scenery. #WilliamHenryIreland
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We interrupt this reading to groan at a misused apostrophe. #WilliamHenryIreland
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I fear we're about to have another attack of gullibility. #WilliamHenryIreland
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Appropriately enough, the quest terminates in a "gloomy" location. #WilliamHenryIreland
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Now getting a blow-by-blow account of our female protagonist's quest for the damsel who is actually in distress. #WilliamHenryIreland
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At least *this* character doesn't suffer from the gullibility of our protagonists. #WilliamHenryIreland
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Trotting out the "luminary of day" again. Really, "the sun" would have been sufficient. #WilliamHenryIreland
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I will not inquire too deeply into how this prisoner in a wretched cell managed to write her memoirs. #WilliamHenryIreland
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