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173 The Yellow Wallpaper (with Evie Lee)

The History of Literature

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The Outside Pattern Changes as the Light Changes

The outside pattern is a florid arabesque, reminding one of a fungus. When the sun shoots in through the east window, I always watch for that first long straight ray. It changes so quickly that I never can quite believe it. That is why I watch it always. My moonlight, the moon shines in all night when there is a moon. At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars. The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be. But now I am quite sure it is a woman. By daylight, she is subdued

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