It feels like it’s been awhile since we’ve heard each other’s voices, so, if willing (and no worries if not), read the excellent opening paragraph from The Haunting of Hill House (or whatever you prefer) into https://vocaroo.com and share the result.
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”