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But, somewhat in the manner of Henry James's classic ghost story "The Turn of the Screw", the reader gradually comes to wonder whether the true villain of the piece might not be the supposed girl-vampire who broods all day in her dorm room but the narrator herself.
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Screw this, she thought: screw the Strip.
"Screw the credit, too".
Screw the law, screw the agreements, screw the homeowners.
"Screwed the planet.
By the story's end the rope has become a noose, the screws have been driven into the reader's fingernails, and the battery is wired someplace unspeakable.
In the first few pages Vann shows the reader an unassuming set of rustic implements: some rope, a few screws, a battery.
You have to grab the reader by the throat immediately, which is why I launched my second memoir with the line "In December my husband stopped screwing me".
"Screw it," the scout says.
For even the laziest reader of The Turn of the Screw, the governess's tone appears overwrought and her attitude self-regarding.
Screw the wine.
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