IJ study archive

Mario's Bolex circuit; Avril on sadness

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A couple odd long crinkly paper strips of bright red hung over the side of the wastebasket, which was normally totally empty and clean.

Context

Third of the office's unexplained details, caught by Mario's low-slung observant eye: bright red crinkly strips in Avril's always-empty wastebasket. Weakest of the three as haunting-material — this archive reads it (with the knuckle-prints) as silent staging for the Avril-Wayne thread — but the scene's tag carries it as part of the room's wrongness.

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