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“It was hard to distinguish the bars of the cage from the dark, repeating stripes on the creatures fur. The animal was orange, burnished, gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite; she carried on her body, the barred marks of a prison, as if she had been branded for exactly this, as if captivity had been her destiny all along.”
— Dec 29, 2025 08:39PM
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indie
is on page 38 of 355
this is INCREDIBLE. Maggie O’Farrell rewrites the lives of H8’s wives & Lady Anne from R3 WHEN???
— Dec 29, 2025 09:19PM
indie
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“Iphigenia, with her slit throat, like a vibrant scarf”
— Dec 29, 2025 09:08PM
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“A lithe, sinuous shape, moving from one side of the cage to the other. The tiger didn’t so much pace as pour herself, as if her very essence was molten, shimmering, like the ooze from a volcano.“
— Dec 29, 2025 08:38PM
indie
is on page 17 of 355
“The cry again! It was not so much a roar, no, which is what Lucrezia had expected: this had a yearning, desperate rasp to it. The sound, Lucrezia thought, of a creature captured against its will, a creature whose desires have all been disregarded.”
— Dec 29, 2025 08:34PM
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“She, alone, heard the tigress’s cry as the cart entered the palazzo gates: a low, hollow call, like wind funnelled through a pipe. It’s severed the night with its mournful pitch – once, twice – before dying away in a hoarse rumble.”
— Dec 29, 2025 08:32PM
