The concept of a thin veil recalls the Biblical account of the Israelites' temple, where a thin veil would separate the people in the temple from God's presence so they could not interact with His presence directly; much like the ancient Israelites, we are forbidden access to knowledge of the true nature of the subject at hand. ... " We want to believe that this positivity is merely dramatic irony, in that the narrator is simply ignorant to what we have already pieced together-yet as it draws on for fifteen whole pages, we question whether we truly do know more than our narrator...

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