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The ever-beautiful flowers she had planted with her own hands became nothing more than the lost roses of her cheeks.
— Criswell • Plan 9 from Outer Space
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The narration turns a garden into a symbol of decline: the flowers she nurtured by hand are reduced to nothing but the faded colour once in her face. It is a solemn, slightly florid lament in which lost bloom in the garden and lost youth in her cheeks blend together.
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