• Anony Moose
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    10 months ago

    I was curious about the use of that word. Does it mean “wet and smelly dark place” in this instance?

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      10 months ago

      It adds a poetic flourish to an image of submission in a diminished and defeated context, like Gollum in his cave in The Hobbit. Somehow wretched and haunted.