I HAVE NO IDEA IF FRANCIS KNEW IT. We all knew it! It seems really clear! however &cetera.
This is my third or fourth Francis at this point and the thing that keeps throwing me about them is that I understand this kind of extremely extra seventies paperback very well to a certain degree but I only understand it through the lens of the trashy Gothic, and the genre conventions are all just three steps sideways so I never have any idea what's going to happen. I know exactly who would have been the villain in the girl-meets-house thriller but the boy-meets-horse thriller catches me off-guard every time!
Anyway, I'm very glad you went on this journey with me and that you got a plate of waffles about it.
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This is my third or fourth Francis at this point and the thing that keeps throwing me about them is that I understand this kind of extremely extra seventies paperback very well to a certain degree but I only understand it through the lens of the trashy Gothic, and the genre conventions are all just three steps sideways so I never have any idea what's going to happen. I know exactly who would have been the villain in the girl-meets-house thriller but the boy-meets-horse thriller catches me off-guard every time!
Anyway, I'm very glad you went on this journey with me and that you got a plate of waffles about it.