July 2010
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Cassie Maddox's Soundcheck: "In The Woods"
In the most moving and heartbreaking scene of “In The Woods” by Tana French, detective Cassie Maddox quotes some verse to soundcheck her surveillance wire:
About your easy heads my prayers I said with syllables of clay. What gift, I asked, shall I bring now Before I weep and walk away?
Take, they replied, the oak and laurel. Take our fortune of tears and live. Like a spendthrift...
