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… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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Chairs
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Nightmare
Shawl
Thing
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Searches
Mind
Doors
Sudden
Drawers
Something
Coming
Manner
Relentless
Struggle
Desperate
Inspires
Open
Shut
Struggling
Effort
Thrown
Chair

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