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The hills behind Frank’s home where Old Saul was buried. It has since become an all-purpose pet graveyard.
The Skull Grounds Quotes in The Wasp Factory
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Chapter 2 Quotes
Eric in particular was very upset. He cried like a girl. I wanted to kill Blyth there and then; the hiding he got from his father, my dad’s brother James, was not enough as far as I was concerned, not for what he’d done to Eric, my brother. Eric was inconsolable, desperate with grief because he had made the thing Blyth had used to destroy our beloved pets. He always was a bit sentimental, always the sensitive one, the bright one; until his nasty experience everybody was sure he would go far. Anyway, that was the start of the Skull Grounds, the area of the big, old, partially earthed-over dune behind the house where all our pets went when they died. The burned rabbits started that. Old Saul was before them, but that was just a one-off thing.
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When Eric and Frank were children, their cousin, Blyth, killed their pet rabbits using a flamethrower that Eric himself had made. Afterwards, Frank remembers how devastated Eric was by the deaths. This moment and this memory were hugely important to Frank’s development. It was the beginning of the Skull Grounds — the pet graveyard behind his home where Old Saul was buried, and from where Old Saul would eventually be exhumed — and it was also the beginning of his murder streak, as Frank made up his mind to kill Blyth because of how his cousin had hurt his brother. This Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis.
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Chapter 6: The Skull Grounds
...Saul’s skull was buried on a hill behind the house, which Frank eventually named the Skull Grounds . Angus claimed to have cut Old Saul open and retrieved Frank’s genitals, but Frank...
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