Polidori’s Reflection – 143
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Dear Villa,
For my part, I feel unease. If we are summoned from the grave, it is not only to charm but to warn. What did I write of before? That precision makes bread or chains. Now I say: the dead too may be shackled, used as instruments for causes we cannot foresee. Strange indeed, and not without peril.
— Polidori