#harrowhark thinks

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What a waste of a woman, to have ended her life at the bottom of a ladder.

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Because Ianthe was over familiar, and frankly a pervert.

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The tea was overwhelming, and tasted too much.

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But you were always too quick to mourn your own ignorance.

And you never could have guessed that he had seen me.

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The fact that this heart-rending narrative shift is followed immediately by back to usual second person is so beautifully frustrating.

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This would have been a perfectly reasonable request, had its meaning not been so obvious: "Do not distract us with your death."

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A man stood in the doorway to the tiny room. He was taller than you. His dull robes flapped around a body of starvation thinness.

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He was taller than you.

Um, yep. Yes. Yeah. Taller than you, Harrow.

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You did not see cookery in your future.

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Palimpsest.

Haven't been counting but it's used a lot in HtN when Harrow is in her head. I don't think that's by accident. I think it's an egg.

Definition:

"something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form"