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thank you
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hello and welcome to our 16th episode of
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our Wuthering Heights discussion and
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Analysis so let's jump into it straight
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away
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so chapter 16 we're almost at the end of
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really the first half of the novel
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really now those are the events and the
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kind of timeline that we're seeing
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that makes sense so we've got chapter 16
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here and we have about 12 o'clock that
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night this is nearly narrating again
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was born the Catherine you saw at
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Wuthering Heights a puny seven months
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child and two hours after the mother
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died having never recovered sufficient
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Consciousness to miss Heathcliff or no
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Edgar
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be careful with this because there's a
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lot of adaptations
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simplify this
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and they have Catherine
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dying childbirth but she actually
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doesn't
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she's already you know she's she's dying
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she has the baby and then she was kind
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of dying anyway effectively
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so the baby the baby is born seven
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months
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I'm gonna say seven months early that's
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not right is it two months early
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science not my strong suit that's why
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it's not science terms
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the
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um and then having never discovered this
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image consistent miss heathcliffe or no
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Edgar so Catherine completely died out
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of it
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no idea what was going on
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a great addition in my eyes was his
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being left without an S so this is
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nearly
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realizing at this point
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that the Linton line Ed gillington is
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doomed really because he hasn't got an
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air because it's a a girl who's been
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born and that's contextual point isn't
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it about
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males could only inherit property
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so his son would have been able to
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inherit the property
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so this opens up the field really to
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what we see in the present of the novel
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at the start when Lockwood arrives where
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Heath if in effect has been playing this
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huge Monopoly game in the area and he
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ends up owning everything but it's
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because he can manipulate relationships
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and the law to a certain extent extent
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as well
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so I mentally abused old Linton for what
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was only natural partiality that
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securing his estate to his own daughter
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instead of his son so he doesn't have a
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son so that's it an unwelcomed infant it
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was poor thing
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so again
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Catherine's start is again it's very
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difficult young Catherine
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she's kind of neglected as a baby
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we redeemed the neglect afterwards but
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it's beginning was as friendless as its
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end as it's likely to be
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so it also in many ways Echoes the birth
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of hereton as well doesn't it with
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hinley and Francis as well
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Edgar Newington had his head laid on the
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pillow and his eyes shut his young and
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fair features almost as death-like as
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those of the form beside him
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so really again it's foreshadowing his
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death as well but again it's no spoiler
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if you've read the first few chapters we
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know that he's dead by that point anyway
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because Lockwood is of course renting
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thrash course Grange
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a browser with her Lids Liz closed her
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lips wearing the expression of a smile
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no angel in heaven could be more
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beautiful than she appeared and I think
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Bronte here is deliberately echoing the
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earlier assertion from Catherine where
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she was cast out of heaven and ended up
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back at the height so I think there's a
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little deliberate recall of that a
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little bit of an echo there of that
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I instinctively Echo the word she
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uttered a few hours before incomparably
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Beyond an above us all weather still on
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Earth or now in heaven her spirit is at
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home with God
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and really again with us still on Earth
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this really foreshadows again
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Lockwood's experience but then also what
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we find out later in the novel as well
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or what what is maybe supposed in terms
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of her fate you know thinking of her as
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a ghost in the afterlife on the Moors
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which is her Heaven because we had last
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chapter as well didn't we we had
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heathcliffs
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idea of hell was to be still living
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while Catherine was dead so there's an
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interesting thing where the Moors takes
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the place of Heaven or Hell depending on
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who's there and at what time effectively
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and again it's all linked to this theme
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of bronte's subverting ideas about
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Christianity again as well
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so we have do you believe such people
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are happy in the other world sir I'd
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give a great deal to know I declined
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answering Mrs Dean's question which
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struck me as something heterodox great
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word there it's obviously Lockwood style
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is more well I think it's always you
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could say pompous but definitely it's
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good that's actually a Greek origin word
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there so he's got a more kind of
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educated kind of uh lexical choices for
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Lockwood and that means
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Orthodox is when you go
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with the established beliefs and ideas
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heterodox is the opposite to it so
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you're going against established ideas
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of the time
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so
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again maybe a bit of bronte's own
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heterodoxy you know her own self
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daughter of a clergyman she was very
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disillusioned I think with the structure
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of the Christian church not necessarily
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with the ideas of Christianity itself
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necessarily but definitely in the way
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that it was delivered and the hypocrisy
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that was readily
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I say available is that the wrong way on
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view
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really in life and particularly like her
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school experience as a church school was
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really traumatic
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so we have uh how much selfishness there
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is even in the love like Mr linton's
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when he was so regretted Catherine's
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blessed relief so
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remember Nelly is an unreliable narrator
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so again she could be framing herself
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more positively here where she's got a
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more compassionate Christian and more
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conventional Christian view of the
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deaths here
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or the death of Catherine and Edgar
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linton's reaction to it oh we just can't
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think oh it's good that she's at peace
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but he's upset because she's no longer
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with him and that's the selfishness that
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she's talking talking about
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then we have the servants thought we'd
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gone to shake off the drowsiness of my
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projected to watch in reality my chief
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motive was seeing Mr Heathcliff so again
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nearly inconsistent as a character she
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often facilitates the relationship
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between Catherine and heathcliffe she
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takes great risk here defying the words
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of her master and the opinions of her
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master Edgar Linton
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to actually go and see Heathcliff
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so she's a very interesting character
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Nelly very inconsistent
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so this is Heath if he was there at
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least a few yards further in the park
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Glenda gets an old ash tree his hat off
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and his hair soaked with the Jew that
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gathered on the budded branches and fell
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patterning around him around him
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Heathcliff like Catherine has a intense
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connection to Nature and Bronte really
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displays that here as well so we have
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the idea of he's actually leading
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against a tree so it's almost like he's
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part of the tree himself in many ways
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and you'll see more of that in a second
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as well but he's not wearing a hat his
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hair's soaked so we've got reference to
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the Jew the budded branches then we've
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got these little birds there these
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oozles passing and repassing scarcely
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three feet from him
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busy and building their nest and
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regarding his proximity no more than
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that of a piece of Timber in some ways
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it reminds me a little bit of how they
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depict radagast in The Lord of the Rings
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The Hobbit film isn't it but the idea of
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it's not quite as Extreme as that but
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heathith is so part of nature that the
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birds don't realize he's really a human
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and they're just carrying around
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carrying on with their business around
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him
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so I like that image I think that's
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really interesting
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I was weeping as much for him as her so
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again notice the inconsistencies with
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Nelly like he or she seems very
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favorable to Heathcliff even though
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despite everything that's happened it's
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a very complicated relationship but she
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does have a kind of maternal
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relationship with Heathcliff as well
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because she was involved in his
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upbringing as well as young Catherine
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and young hindley as well as well as
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hairton too so it's another aspect of
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her
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personality and
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really parents do have unconditional
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love so maybe that's what
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Nelly is reflecting for Heathcliff like
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despite everything she still shows that
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almost parental compassion for him
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she's the closest thing that he's got to
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a parent you know once they're unsure or
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died you know there's there's no one
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else is there really about saying that
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Heathcliff isn't exactly uh
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delightful like taking her out for
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Mother's Day treats or anything like
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that he's not he doesn't treat her well
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but again she's got that maternal
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element to her
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again there's more selfishness but
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Hitler this time and did she ever
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mention me
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since he never returned uh her life
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closed in a gentle dream may she wake us
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kindly in the other world here's some
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really significant interesting lines
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worth making a note of if you're keeping
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notes
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may she wake in torment he cried with
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frightful vehements so he's really angry
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stamping his foot and groaning in a
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sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion
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so he's just really ranting and raging
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effectively is what this means but
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there's a deliberate antithesis here
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between which kindly in the other world
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and then waking torment so that's the
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idea of Heaven that's the idea of hell
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so Bronte is deliberately created
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antithesis there
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and where she why she's a lie to the end
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where is she not there not in heaven not
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perished where so that links to what
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we've been saying already about the
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connection to Nature the Moors the kind
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of anti-christian almost kind of pagan
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sense of spiritual attachment to Nature
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and Catherine and heathcliffe and it
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fits in with the whole kind of romantic
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ideal as well which front is writing
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fits into
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then Catherine you may not rest as long
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as I'm living you said I killed you
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haunt me then the murder do haunt their
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murderers I believe
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thinking of the murderers that's
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polytoton
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that's when you're repeating different
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essentially different versions of the
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same word different roots of the same
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words and murdered and murders there
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there's more Supernatural connotations
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as well and it's ironic because we do
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know that there are the talk of the
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ghosts of Catherine particularly with
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Lockwood in that early episode there but
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there's other references too
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be with me always take any form driving
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man look at all the exclamatory
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sentences you've got here you've got and
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and
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um rhetorical interrogatives as well so
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we've got lots of uncertainty has
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created this parenthesis as well look at
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all this so Bronte is really suggesting
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this intensity of emotion from
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Heathcliff here is a character in terms
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of his processing of this grief that
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he's having for the love of his life
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dying there and again a really important
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one here as well
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um oh God it is unauthorable I cannot
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live without my life I cannot live
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without my soul so parallel phrasing
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there really important
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really important line again that also
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emulates this incredible bond that Heath
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and Catherine actually have doesn't it
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as well
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it does his head against the knotted
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trunk and lifting up his eyes howled not
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like a man but like a Savage Beast being
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going to death with knives and Spears so
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if you've watched all the other videos
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you can guess what I'm gonna say here
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before I've even said it but I'll say it
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just in case it's the first video and
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also what I'm saying is like comment and
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subscribe leave a notification Bell do
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all those things I should have said at
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the start but I'm saying it right now as
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well
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then we have again like predatory
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imagery here of animal zoomorphism
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effectively of giving him these animal
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qualities
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ninja spends his days and nights there a
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Sleepless Guardian so this is against
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her coffin which remains uncovered and
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again look at that strewn with flowers
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and scented leaves so that connection to
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nature for Catherine they're very
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important Heather spent his nights at
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least outside so look linted inside the
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house Heath lived outside the house so
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as close to Nature as he could be even
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though the environment of thrash course
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Grange is very cultivated and and oh
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this was manicured in a way but
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obviously that normally applies to
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people I'm just being figurative but
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much more of a
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refined sculpted version of nature
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rather than the Wilds of the Moors where
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Heathcliff is really comfortable and
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Catherine as well
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my master from Arthur fatigue so sorry
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my master from sheer fatigue had been
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compelled to retire a couple of hours so
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when he goes to sleep again nearly
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facilitating heathcliff's entrance into
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the house here as well to let him say
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one final goodbye to Catherine
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and I ascertain to have been taken from
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a lock lock it hung around Katherine's
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deck oh yeah I forgot about this because
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this is where Heath if it turns out once
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she leaves him alone with him nearly
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leaves adhesive alone with the uh with
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Catherine's body but when she comes back
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in he's been interfering with the with
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the corpse and once he's done is I
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ascertain to have been taken from a
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locket hung around Katherine's neck he
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could have opened the trinket and cast
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out his contents replacing them by a
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black clock of his own so he switched
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his hair for Edgar Linton
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well it's the other way around Edgar
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linton's hair is taken out of the locket
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and he's put his own hair in there as
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well so obviously to be with her and
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again it Bronte is emphasizing
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symbolically that connection also this
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is really transcending a boundaries and
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as well you're crossing a boundary here
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of and uh of of marriage as well because
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that's what a husband and wife would
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traditionally do or traditionally have
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you'd expect that but
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yeah this much more complicated Primal
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relationship that Catherine and
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heathcliffe have he's yeah he's put
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their hair together in the locket
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instead of Edgar Linton
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so we have
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her burial hindley earn sure doesn't go
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to the funeral himself
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but he doesn't turn up presumably
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because he's drinking or passed out or
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whatever so not many people are at the
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funeral besides her husband the mornings
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were wholly composed of tenants and
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servants look at this really romantic
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description of Catherine's grave as well
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the place of Catherine's internment
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to the surprise of the villagers was
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neither in the chapel under the carved
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Monument of the lintons that's much more
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in the Victorian rich person's style you
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have like a big effectively like tombs
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really like big you know big flashy they
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quite like big flashy
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Graves well gravestones and tombs and
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all these all these kind of things which
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you might have seen if you've ever
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visited a Victorian church or church
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that's older than that then
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nor yet by the tombs of Roe relations
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outside it was dug on a green slope in a
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corner of the Kirk yard that's a
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churchyard where the wall is so low that
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health and bilberry plants have climbed
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over it from the Moor and Pete almost
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buries it so she's buried in the
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churchyard but look how she's buried so
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close as she can be to the Moors and the
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Moors are coming to symbolically reclaim
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her and take her back to the Moors
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because she is an entity of the Moors
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she doesn't fit in into this Christian
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Church hard Church yard so much she's
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being taken back into nature so I think
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that's fascinating there her husband
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lies in the same spot now they have a
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simple headstone above and a plane gray
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block at their feet to Mark the graves
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so a simple simple grave for her there
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so I will stop now and hope you've
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enjoyed that don't forget to like
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Bell and I will see you on the next one
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goodbye
