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eightyonekilograms:

iridescentsprout:

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the shock ending of the lottery is the equivalent of a jumpscare; like, yes, it accomplishes the goal of making you feel uncomfortable, but there\u2019s much\n more interesting ways of doing horror than that

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This feels like a bit of a Seinfeld is Unfunny effect: in the ~75 years since The Lottery was published, we\u2019ve had so many shocking twists and wholesome villages with a dark secret that The Lottery\u2019s ending is, to the modern pop-culture-immersed reader, both completely predictable and pretty weaksauce. But I don\u2019t think that was true to readers at the time.

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Over the years Fallout has been pretty interesting and meta re: whether the incongruously wholesome village in the wasteland is secretly cannibals

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