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Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1871
Pages
Pages 450

It opens with a fall. An architect steps backward off a church spire's scaffolding, and his daughter, at a window opposite, watches the rest of her life settle before he reaches the ground.

Emotions will attach themselves to scenes that are simultaneous—however foreign in essence these scenes may be—as chemical waters will crystallize on twigs and wires.
Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy

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