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Setting in the Bloody Chamber and other StoriesBloody Chamber
“narrow bedroom I had left behind forever”
“the magic place, the fairy-castle whose walls were made from foam”
“the legendary habitation”
“our destination, my destiny”
“marvellous castle”
“sea, sand – a sky that melt into the sea”
“landscape with the look of being on the point of melting”
“fairy solitude of the place”
“cut off from the land for half a day”
“home neither on the land nor on the water, a mysterious, amphibious place”
“our bed. Surrounded by so many mirrors”
“his library” education restricted, only for men
“dull little room” “leave it well alone”
“hide-away den”
“a long winding corridor, as if I were in the viscera of the castle.”
“barred with black iron”
“absolute darkness”
“dreadful place”
“room designed for desecration”
“at the centre of the room lay a catafalque”
“I could not take refuge in my bedroom” bedrooms meant to be place of safety but also vulnerability
“my music room seemed the safest place.
“private slaughterhouse”
“castle of murder”
“November morning, sharp as child birth” live and death
, The Courtship of Mr Lyon
“mean kitchen”
“winter’s landscape”
“the road is white and unmarked as a spilled bolt of bridal satin” journey away from this domestic
cage to another.
“perfect Palladian house”
“gate barred all within it from the world outside the walled wintry garden”
“white hall with so many flower in jars of crystal.”
“the rich are often very eccentric”
“her bedroom contained a marvellous glass bed” decadent
“walls covered with antique paper of birds of paradise”
“she longed for the shabby home of their poverty”
“Beauty would pass the day in her suite”
“an air of exhaustion”
“perfect darkness”
“dust, everywhere and it was cold”
Physical disillusion as if its glamour had been sustained by a cheap conjuring trick”
“what a modest bedroom”
“an attic, no carpets on the floor, no curtains at the windows”
Tiger’s Bride
“we come from countries of cold weather”
“we are at war with nature”
“everything flowers, no harsh winds stirs the voluptuous air”
“cannot escape the snow”
“the chill damp of this place creeps into the stones”
“a sunless, featureless landscape, a sullen river of sweating fog”
“a cruel city”
“sombre piazza, a place uniquely suited for public executions”
“Beast’s Carriage, an elegant if antique design, was black as a hearse”
“as far as the eye could see, no one thing living”
“dead season of this spurious Eden”
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