... quasi-autonomous power figures in their own right "and Joseph, it seems, ahs always done so. Lockwood's initial description of the house conveys a place of power and disconcerting spatial perspectives: innumerable dogs haunt unnumbered recesses; immense pewter dishes tower row after row; servants emerge from the ... compensates amply for his actual humiliation by the dogs and rescue by Zillah. So this first dream arises in a perfectly ordinary way out of elements in his experience and his readings. Next, however, he has a very different dream, not rooted in his own experience. Thinking t...

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