Lurdes
founder hypothesisLurdes may function as the story's analog keeper of sequence, access and continuity without occupying the centre of the myth.
Was Lurdes preserving evidence, controlling it, or ensuring it could not disappear?
Why this reading exists
This reading examines archive, sequence, access through the question of who controls the surviving story.
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- Was Lurdes preserving evidence, controlling it, or ensuring it could not disappear? Starting source
A competing reading
Keeping an object need not mean controlling the sequence of its disclosure.
What would weaken it?
Evidence that access and sequence were decided elsewhere would limit this reading.
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Characters: Lurdes
Objects: archive
Places: Marbella, villa
Genre: literary mystery
For: historians and archivists
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