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...returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled, refines her sin, lays the ghost by seducing her father. All are consumed???sin, protagonists, accessories?when the idiot crone Jinny, childishly embracing her candle for a star, turns the old house into a holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pacific Headlands | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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