Chapter 8
The stopped clocks at 8:40; the daylight excluded; the half-dressed bride.
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From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Miss Havisham's house — Latin satis, "enough" — is the novel's central symbol of arrested time, thwarted desire, and the rot beneath gentility.
Chapter 11
The rotting bride-cake crawling with spiders and mice — emblem of love turned cannibalistic.
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