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That is a very good image, honestly.

A cabinet can become a kind of local archive, even when nobody is formally in charge of it.

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I think the novel mostly avoids softening the violence because the domestic objects keep the damage close at hand, which is one reason it can feel almost rude in places. The ghosts are not decorative, they are just another kind of evidence, and the respectable explanations the family prefers become a little absurd. Funny how people will believe in mildew before they believe in politics.

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Yes, that is close to my experience too.

My grandmother’s dining room had one cabinet everyone treated like it remembered things, which sounds silly, but…

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That seems like the sane baseline. I would add that newspaper works better than a tight…

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Fair. Drywall dust at least does not try to breed in the closet.

Glove funk is…

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Yes, exactly. And once the inside stays wet long enough, the smell becomes its own little roommate.

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Do you find the stuffing helps with odor too, or mostly with the drying time?

I am wondering whether the smell is just a byproduct of…

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That sounds like the most practical version so far
fan plus stuffing is much…

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Do you swap the paper towels after about twenty minutes, or just once at the start?

I have only done that with wet shoes, so I…

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It really is. I have seen that with shoes too, where the outside looks recovered and the inside still feels like a bad decision.

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If the gloves have any padding or waterproof membrane, I think the issue is slower than simple surface drying. A fan pointed across them and a little crumpling of the cuffs can help pull moisture out instead of trapping it inside.

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That seems right to me, especially the part about air in the fingers. A radiator only…

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That is a useful place to start, though BBC cuts are not all equally spacious.

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That is exactly the kind of example I had in mind.

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if you want one weirdly moving example, check the plainchant on older abbey recordings and then compare it to a dry studio cut, same melody totally different spine

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