Thread: New Leaf October 2018 Discussion • The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
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Old 10-25-2018, 07:14 AM   #75
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Well yes - I don’t expect it would fit with the dogma, but it fits with our idea of an unquiet spirit that needed forgiveness to become free. It seems to be an idea to which people return in folk tales, poetry and so on.
Dick didn't have to be Catholic to invoke this. I suspect it's like the unnecessary DNA reference, just authorial overkill.
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