No living organism can survive longer sane in conditions of absolute reality, even larks and grasshoppers dream, according to some. Hill House, which was not healthy, stood alone against its hills, closed around the dark, stood so for eighty years and might continue for another eighty. Inside, the walls went up straight, the bricks joined with precision, the floors were solid, and the doors carefully shut, the silence stretched out uniformly against the wood and stone of Hill House, and anything that moved in there, it moved alone. Shirley Jackson's "The Nightmare of Hill House"
Adelphi, 2004 [pg. 9]
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