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[WEBSITE] Sarah's Blog: sixthofnever.com - found 5/27
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zounds
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CrypticVision wrote:
Sandra wrote:
Like with the masks. We know one played a role before, and now she's created even more.


Bah, I missed that part. Can you give me a quick and dirty/link me to where the mask(s) came into play?

http://www.varin.org/ctw/Guide/august.html
Agatha, Phyllis and Iris find the mask in the library basement, (Lots of talk about the mask between a third and halfway down the page).

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MageSteff
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Shad0 wrote:
shinything wrote:
Sarah has a mother-figure who is not her mother whom she refers to as "P.", and she mentions another person, a man, named "D.". Both of these people are supportive of Sarah. Sarah notes that "P." is worried about someone, a man.

At the risk of stating either (1) the blindingly obvious, or (2) the blatantly erroneous...
P&D=Phyllis and Douglas?

(Bear with me. Still trying to catch up on CTW1.)

P = Phyllis most likely, but D since it refers to the divorce is probably Dale.
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 		One of the most vivid memories I have of the situation is when Phyllis found Iris with the mask on her face. It had been decided that they would not experiment with it the way they had with the stone and wand - but after a seance Iris became obsessed with the mask. Eventually it was turned over to one of us to keep it away from Iris.

Here's a part of one of the letters Phyllis sent regarding the mask:

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We found Iris in the guest room, in the room where she had first seen the vision of Sarah as a little girl, in the room where Douglas had slept during his last months! She was lying on the bed with the mask over her face! Her head was rolling from side to side and she was making muffled moans. The urge to yank it off her face was tremendous. But, I breathed deeply, centered myself and visualized a protective sphere of white light the way Iris has taught me to do. Then I gently lifted the mask off of her face and handed it to James. I told him, "Take it away. Put it in the box and seal the lid." The house fell silent and the uproar in the yard faded away.


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enaxor
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 		Sarah has posted another blog entry.

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D.'s journal on Friday mentioned his insomnia problems. That must be nice. At least you don't (usually) dream when you're awake, barring the voices in the bathroom fan.

Last night my earrings melted off after my face caught on fire, and I watched the little plops of gold dribble down my shoulders in the rearview mirror. When I woke up gasping, as is my usual M.O., I had to take out the little hoops that I always wear. It made me feel naked, but I couldn't stand having them in. Maybe I'll get over it soon and be able to put them back. I kind of doubt it, though. Watching my fingernails fall off that one night was so bad that I'm still unable to stand it when they're at all long.

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 		Interesting. Bruce blogged about a dream about fire:

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1/15/06
Sweat Dreams

The good medical professionals of Aglaura have seen fit to provide me with Ambien.

I'm getting enough sleep for now. Still, my dreams have been so bizarre. Nightmares, really. Everyone, everything thing in them has been wreathed, or encased in flame. Like that wild video Spike Jonze made for that not-very-interesting band, Wax. California, I think was the name of the song. Two nights ago I woke up drenched in sweat. I'd been talking loudly in my sleep..."put out the fire", "put out the fire". Diana kissed me gently and went to sleep on the couch.

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 		new entry

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The hell you say 04Jun06

I've gotten weary of scribbling my name and "Head Librarian" on the generic business cards at work. Last week I contacted a printing company to make me new ones - just a little way to keep positive in light of the TPTP (Terrible Phase Two Plan).

You know what they put on them?

"Dead Librarian."

I ask you, is that nice? We all make typos once in a while, and I'm certainly not flawless in that regard, but you would think that someone would proofread that first.

Just the kind of boost to my ego I need lately, with the TPTP, the Theft, and the Nightmares. Thanks so much.


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 		Poor Sarah - she isn't having such a good time is she, I couldn't help laughing at the typo tho' Embarassed
I know I shouldn't have done - I've got a bit of a bad feeling...

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enaxor
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 		Sarah's latest blog entry.

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Variety is the spice of dead librarians
Stamped: June 12th, 2006 |
Well. It started off familiarly, but changed rapidly after that. Last night's dream, that is. First I was back in the car, watching myself with that same look of slack-jawed wonder in the rearview mirror as I roasted to a crisp. The difference this time was that I knew I had asked for this. I had been so dreadfully cold and begged someone to burn me up, and as I looked in the mirror I wore a smile because it was the first time I had been warm in ages. Suddenly the car turned into a horse-drawn coach and I was on the way to visit an aunt whose husband owned a lodging house with a Caribbean name. As I tried to think of the name of where I was going, the prickly sensation of being watched overcame me. I whipped my head around to discover I was no longer in a coach, but in a small room (maybe the lodging house?) and although I appeared to be alone, in my heart I knew eyes were trained on me, and an old rhyme about fruit came to mine… Grapefruit and lime? It wasn't right, but it was close. My eyes were drawn to a picture on the wall. It wasn't what I expected: it was a house with two gables with a man that looked like a derrick in the front yard, and a girl holding a fan next to him. Nothing more than a child's scrawl, really, but I was a child myself and it met with my full approval, and I knew a boy who smelled like a swimming hole had drawn it for me. Suddenly I became vexed with the boy, for I was a governess and the thought of a child playing hooky ran counter to my tenets. I could not keep my mind from straying to toy with the thought of the tortured creature in the attic… but suddenly the attic changed; it was part of a monstrous house that I had inherited. We had gone to explore the house at the request of a doctor who wished to study it. As I watched, someone drove down the driveway and crashed into the big tree there, car going up in flames - and I came full circle.


*Notice above that the journal entry was dated June 12th. This was added to Sarah's blog entry.

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I just noticed that my post appeared to be coming from the future. I assure you, earthlings, I am from your time. If I were from the future I'd be down at the horse track or something. Anyway, my time settings should be all fixed now.


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Sandra
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 		Seems to me Sarah has some literary works showing up in this dream. It's clear that some of it is from Jane Eyre (the man and the little girl, the mad woman in the tower.)

The mansion that she describes that a doctor wants to be examined could be from The Haunting of Hill House. (The most terrifying horror movie I've ever seen.) The end of the story reflects the car crash at the end of Sarah's dream.

Not sure what to look for when it comes to the rhyme.

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 		Could this be the rhyme?

Oranges and lemons
Say the bells of St Clements
You owe me five farthings
Say the bells of St Martins
When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey
When I grow rich
Say the bells of Shoreditch
When will that be?
Say the bells of Stepney
I'm sure I don't know
Says the great bell at Bow
Here comes a candle to light you to bed
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head

Chop chop chop chop the last man's head!

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Sandra
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 		That certainly fits in with the others. It's an old nursery rhyme from England that includes references to the great bells around London.

But who's the boy that smells like a swimming hole? What is the name of the lodging house that sounds like a Caribbean name?

I'm also wondering if there's a reference to Turn of the Screw - the bit about the boy playing hooky.

Course after we figure out what the reference are - what do we do with them? Smile

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 		Funny that I was just looking at this page today at the Aglaura library.
http://aglauranj.org/library/bookclub.html
I think the answers may be there.
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
are both on the list.
So is
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer..... a boy who would smell like a swimming hole. Smile

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 		Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Murier could be the carribbean lodging house.
Good catch Sandra. I was also reminded of some of the classics

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 		Themes of Paranoia
There are several lines in Sarah's entry 'Variety is the spice of dead librarians' that talk about being watched.......(Big Brother?)
the prickly sensation of being watched overcame me.
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and although I appeared to be alone, in my heart I knew eyes were trained on me, and an old rhyme about fruit came to mind… Grapefruit and lime? It wasn't right, but it was close.
RedHatty already pointed out , Oranges and Lemons. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemons under "Trivia"
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The rhyme makes an appearance in Nineteen Eighty-Four as a snippet of nursery rhyme that Winston Smith cannot remember the ending to.


Sarah can't seem to remember it either. Smile
So another likely literary reference:
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell

Oh, and just a note: This title isn't on the Aglaura library book club page either, so I guess my above posted idea was wrong. Rolling Eyes

edit to add: note to mods:Should disscussion of this entry be in a [Puzzle] topic?

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 		just a guess, but the similarity of the names struck me. Also from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemonsis :

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The less well known version of the lyrics are featured in the book The Night Watch by Sarah Waters.


Sarah Wyatt, Sarah Waters - just a little too close so I thought I would mention it & see what you all think

Edit: Found another possible relationship.

Neil Gaiman worte the comics series The Sandman, which chronicles the tale of Morpheus, the anthropomorphic personification of Dream.

"Here Comes a Candle" is the title of a book written by the fictitious arthur Richard Murdock in the Sandman series.

This line is from the rhyme

I might be grasping at straws, but this is my first real ARG, so please be patient with me

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