By selecting an area rug with colors that are present in the surrounding decor, your room's “fifth wall”—the floor—can pull everything together.

These are, in redecraft, the English language and literature, mathematics, psychology; in handcraft, the physical sciences, physics, chemistry, biology; with regular and ample laboratory work in each.

And in truth, his mind was such a welter of opposites—of the night and the blazing candles, of the shabby poet and the great Queen, of silent fields and the clatter of serving men—that he could see nothing; or only a hand.

This analysis uses concepts from film theory to demonstrate how the dispersal of image, voice, and narrative in novels can specularize female characters, denying them subjectivity and authoritative discourse, and, further, how some characterizations can be understood as resistant to that dispersal.