Read the Basilisk at your earliest convenience. You should not read it as a horror story. You should probably not read it as a story at all.

Don’t dismiss the second letter as a lame retreat from the first letter and as a cowardly taking-of-the-knee to one of the secular shibboleths of the age. Read it until the end. Ask yourself what would possess a woman to write like that?


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